Monument record MHG18228 - Gergask Burn

NN 6135 9497

A roundhouse measuring 11m N/S by 9m E/W sits on a plateau at c315mOD on the west bank of the Gergask Burn. There is an entrance to the SE. The walls spread is cl.5m and they are up to 1m high on the S where they are best preserved. 2 rabbit burrows have been dug into the walls.
Around the building are clearance cairns up to 5m diameter and averaging 0.6m high. The cairns cover an area c100m E/W by 80m N/S.
Wordsworth 1997, Site 2 (see Hlinked report)


NN69SW 11 613 949

On the top of the slope above the W side of the Gergask Burn, Laggan there is a turf-covered, but well defined hut-circle. It measures approximately 8.5m in diameter, within well-spread walls, averaging, 3m broad by 0.5m high; an entrance is in the E arc. There is a significant number of stone clearance heaps associated with hut-circles in the vicinity and extending some distance to the E.
Information from OS (Inverness), 7 November 1989


NN 6135 9496 Roundhouse 11m N-S by 9m E-W in cairnfield 100 x 80m.
Copies of the full report are in the NMRS and Highland SMR.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
J Wordsworth 1997