Monument record MHG13052 - Burnt Mound, Cuil Fraoich

NC21NW 3 2490 1870.
On a fairly level river terrace within degraded pasture is a turf-covered burnt mound measuring 12m E-W by 11m transversely and 1m high. There is a depression extending from the centre towards S side, where there is an old watercourse, now dry. Erosion in W side reveals a content of small stones and earth; the former shows some evidence of burning. There is no trace of hut circles or associated cultivation in the area.
Surveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (J B) 2 September 1980.

Surveyed by the Assynt's Hidden Lives project in November 2009. Situated on flat ground to the east of River Loanan is a burnt mound measuring 13m x 10m x 0.75m, aligned E-W. The mound is crescent shaped and completely grassed over with an opening towards the river to the south. Four small clearance cairns, HLP 44, are situated to the east and south-east of the mound which itself seems completely undisturbed. <1>