Monument record MHG25194 - Torbreck Burn

NC70NW 60.01 7074 0611

(NC 7073 0612) Undescribed feature.
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)

This is a hut circle in the margin of a crofting settlement abandoned in the 18/19th century. The N arc of the hut has been marginally truncated by a field wall and the E exterior has the gable-end of a building footing abutting. The hut measures 8.6m diameter within a boulder-faced wall 1.5 to 1.6m thick and on average 0.5m high; the entrance is uncertain.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 May 1981.

Situated towards the end of a heather- and grass-covered spur that overlooks the Torbreck Burn from the NE, there is a hut-circle. It measures 8.3m from NE to SW by 7.8m transversely within a boulder-faced bank 1.7m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The entrance is on the SE, and the N side is overlain by an earth-and-stone township head-dyke (see NC 70NW 60.02). To the ENE of the hut-circle there is an arc of stony bank (NC 7078 0613), open to the S, which may have been the remains of a further hut-circle. Several peat-covered mounds in the vicinity may be the remains of clearance cairns.
Immediately to the SSE of the first hut-circle there is a subrectangular depression, possibly the remains of a building, and an enclosure. The building, enclosure and head-dyke may have formed part of the township which lies on the E bank of the Torbreck Burn (see NC 70NE 60.02).
(ROG95 190)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 15 May 1995