Monument record MHG247 - Hut Circle, Whitebridge

Summary

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 4872 1490 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH41SE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish BOLESKINE AND ABERTARFF
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

Burial Ground (NAT) (Supposed remains of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

A circular enclosure formed by an old grass-and- heather covered wall, supposed to have been a burial ground, but of what period is not known. (Name Book 1871)
A similar structure called "Fort Allanriach", with exactly the same diameter and thickness of wall (i.e. 58' and 3') exists in Ross, 4 miles from Kessock Ferry.
A J Beaton 1882

Not a burial ground, but a circular stone-walled hut, situated on level ground in an area of cultivation contemporary with depopulation. It measures 18.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to
c.3.5m all round, surviving to a height of 0.6m, with no wall faces evident. The simple entrance, in the E arc, is c.1.5m wide. A modern fence crosses the hut.
Close by to the SE is a less substantial D-shaped enclosure, almost certainly contemporary with the depopulation.
Surveyed at 1:2500.(Visited by OS (N K B) 22 June 1964)
Visited by OS (N K B) 19 December 1969

A hut circle, as described by OS surveyor.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 September 1974

No change to previous field reports.
Survey revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 14 February 1979

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Beaton, A J. 1882. 'Notes on the antiquities of the Black Isle, Ross-shire, with plans and sections', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 16 1881-2, p.477-92. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 477-92. 483.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 21, 69.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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