Monument record MHG11151 - Creag Chreagach

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 7242 1787 (386m by 428m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC71NW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish CLYNE

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Situated on a SW facing moderate hillslope at an altitude of 191m=236m OD in rough pasture.
Information added by A M Fox, Highland Council Archaeology Unit, 17.04.00

NC71NW 9 724 188.

Centred on NC 724 188, along the exposed south-west middle slopes of Creag Chreagach, is a settlement of four hut circles (A-D) in association with a field system. The huts, poorly preserved, are heather and peat-covered with entrances in the SE quarter on the line of the main axis when applicable.
'A' measures 7.0 by 6.5m across within an indistinct wall-spread.
'B' measures 8.0m diameter inside a wall spread to 2.5m and 0.4m high in the E half, but vague elsewhere.
'C' measures 9.0 by 7.5m within a wall spread at most pronounced to 1.5m and 0.2m high.
'D' measures approximately 10.0 by 7.5m internally. The wall is obscure. 'D' measures approximately 10.0 by 7.5m internally. The wall is obscure. The field system is evident in numerous field clearance heaps. Spaced on average from 10.0 to 20.0m apart, interspersed with occasional signs of lynchets. No measurable plots are discernible.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 15 May 1981.

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Record last edited

Nov 4 2016 10:24AM

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