Monument record MHG28211 - Gaskbeg

NN 6225 9537

A roundhouse 11m in diameter lies in an area of grassland raised slightly above the heather and peat moorland that predominate in this area. The walls of the roundhouse are indistinct suggesting there has been previous damage to this site. The E side in particular appears to have been partially robbed out.
There is a small area of cattle/sheep poaching c1m in diameter in the centre of this side.
To the E and N of the roundhouse is an extensive area of cultivation represented by clearance cairns and remnant rigs measuring 2m in width. Traces of enclosure walls survive at the N of the area as sketched. As the clearance cairns extend into areas not defined by the enclosure walls, it is likely the walls and probably the rigs define a secondary use of this area, perhaps dating to more recent times.
At the NW erosion has exposed a small area of charcoal with a few pieces of iron slag suggesting that there was a small bloomery here to smelt bog iron ore.
A now abandoned track runs across the S end of the site running roughly N/S.
Wordsworth 1997, Site 3 (see Hlinked report)


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NN 6225 9538 Roundhouse 11m in diameter associated with extensive cairnfield and later rig cultivation. A small area of iron slag was uncovered.
Copies of the full report are in the NMRS and Highland SMR.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
J Wordsworth 1997