Monument record MHG12405 - Caolas

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 6719 0616 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC60NE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish ROGART

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NC60NE 4 6719 0616.

At NC 6719 0616, on a SW -facing hillside, is a hut circle, built up on the slope, and measuring 6.5m by 5.5m within a wall reduced to a peat-covered rubble spread some 2.0m wide by 0.2m high; the entrance is in the SSE on the line of the long axis. Attached to the SW exterior of the hut is an annexe. It measures 5.0m by 3.0m across within an indeterminate wall; its entrance position is not evident. There are two or three stone clearance heaps nearby.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (J M) 2 October 1980.

This hut-circle, covered in peat and heather (the latter recently burnt off), is situated on a WSW-facing hillside above the head of a small unnamed burn. It measures 7m N-S by 5.5m transversely within a stony bank spread to a thickness of 2m and standing 0.3m high, with an entrance on the S. There is a platform to the WSW, immediately below the hut. The clearance heaps noted in the vicinity by the OS were not seen.
(ROG95 221)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 21 March 1995

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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