Monument record MHG10855 - Hut circle, Loch Ma Naire

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 7252 5407 (175m by 267m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC75SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish FARR

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NC75SW 6 7254 5399.

NC 7254 5399. A circular enclosure 13m in diameter was discovered during field investigation. No entrance is apparent, thus it may be an old sheepfold.
Visited by OS (J L D) 5 May 1960.

Levelled into the east flank of a spur is a tumbled and turf-covered enclosure, probably overlying a hut circle. It measures 12m in diameter within a wall about 1.4m wide and 1m maximum height in the NW. The wall forms a complete circuit; there is no entrance discernible. The absence of boulder facing stones and an entrance, the height of the wall in relation to the width, and the slight anguarity of the remains suggest that this enclosure is contemporary with the nearby early modern building foundations and associated rig-and-furrow. But the size, the wall width, the setting into the slope, and the proximity to about twenty scattered stone clearance heaps to the north may indicate a hut circle subsequently modified for a stock enclosure.
Re-surveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (N K B) 30 January 1979.

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Record last edited

Sep 9 2016 10:32AM

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