Monument record MHG1170 - Hut Circle, Cnoc Sheangan

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 1556 3298 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND13SE
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish LATHERON
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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On the hillside above the E bank of the Burn of Houstry, is a hut circle measuring 7.5m NNW-SSE by 5.5m within a turf and heather covered wall, 0.3m high and spread to a width of 2.0m. The entrance is in the SSE.
Associated land-use is indicated by a scatter of stone clearance heaps, particularly noticeable along a natural shelf N of the hut.
Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (J M) 20 October 1982.

This hut-circle is lies in an area of dense gorse and bracken on a terrace overlooking abandoned farmsteading of Cuag (ND13SE 104), immediately E of track leading down to the steading and Burn of Houstry. The hut-circle measures 10.5m N-S by 9m transversely within walls 0.3m in height and spread 1.8m in thickness. The entrance is on S or SSE.
A group of at least 10 small cairns, presumably the result of field clearance, can be seen along the terrace to N of hut-circle and others may be hidden in patches of gorse and bracken to the SSE.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, IP) August 1997

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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