Monument record MHG11188 - Leathad Bad Na Crubaig

NC73SW 13 7405 3199.

At NC 7405 3199, within a settlement of hut circles is a kiln-like structure built into an embarkment on the hillside.
Visited by OS (E G C) 18 May 1961.

The remains of this sub-rectangular dry-stone structure are built into a lynchet in a W-facing hillslope within a settlement of hut circles and a field system (See NC73SW 5). It measures internally 3.2m E-W by 2.1m; its west end is reduced to amorphous footings but the east end is 0.9m high. Here the walling is constructed of boulders on edge with courses of smaller stone in between, and capped by three or four random courses of stone. A trial dig in the centre of the E end produced a few flakes of charcoal.
It is not a corn-dryig kiln; it lacks the circularity and the inverted cone-shaped profile, and it is isolated from any deserted township. The mode of construction is commonly found in prehistoric monuments: ie chambered cairns, hut circles etc, and the position within a prehistoric settlement may be significant. A possibility is that it is or has been utilsed as a shooting butt as the position facing uphill to a false crest and the present height of the east backwall would render it suitable for this purpose, though no butts are in the vicinity.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 1 June 1977.