Monument record MHG10956 - Loch Ma Naire

NC75SW 26 7272 5474.

At NC 7272 5474 on a natural moorland shelf, is an unusually well-preserved hut circle within an associated field system. It measures 12.5m in diameter with a heather-covered wall, 1.2m maximum height; this wall has an estimated width of 1.8m broadening to 2.5m at either side of a clubbed entrance in the SSE arc, where there a number of displaced boulders. Some outer facing stones are visible around the north and south-west arcs. Within the hut is what appears as a shelf, 0.7m high and over-grown with heather and peat, forming an arc around the north part of the hut before converging with the walls on the east and west sides. It does not seem to be entirely a natural feature ie. peat growth, but its puupose and relationship to the hut is uncertain. In the south part of the hut sharing the common entrance is a circular, dry-stone structure of slight form, measuring 5.0m in diameter within a wall about 0.9m wide. Its proportions tend to preclude it being a secondary hut; it appears to be later, possibly a post-Medieval animal shelter.
The field system, occupying 1.5 hectares, is represented in the south by about six large clearance heaps, and elsewhere by smaller heaps and rickles of stones. No measurable cultivation plots are discernible. Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 13 July 1977.