Monument record MHG28476 - Torbreck Burn

NC60NE 24 6976 0719, 6988 0709 and 6985 0709

A hut-circle and an adjacent field-system are situated on the boulder-littered NE side of the valley of the Torbreck Burn. The hut-circle (ROG95 353, NC 6976 0719) measures 6.6m in diameter within a boulder-faced bank 1.1m in thickness and 0.4m in height, with an entrance on the ESE. In the interior there is an upright slab, standing about 0.5m in height and set radially to the line of the bank, and the remains of a later hut.
The field-system (ROG95 995), which lies to the SE of the hut-circle, comprises two plots, separated by a boggy sump, and demarcated by rickles of stone; the plots together measure about 110m by 60m overall. On the steeper slopes to the NE of the plots there are several small cairns measuring up to 4m in diameter within, or at the edges of, what may be another cleared area.
The two burnt mounds lie along the NE bank of the burn at the S edge of the eastern of the two plots. The E mound (ROG95 351, NC 6988 0709) is large and U-shaped, measuring 17.1m from NNW to SSE by 13.6m transversely and 1.2m in height, opening out to the SSE. Around the edges of the hollow there is an oval setting of well-grounded boulders defining a structure within the mound measuring 2.8m from NNW to SSE by 1.9m in height. The second mound (ROG95 352, NC 6985 0709) is C-shaped and measures 10m from NNW to SSE by 4.3m transversely and 0.8m in height. The hollow measures 1.5m across and opens out to the SSW where the mound may have been truncated by the burn.
(ROG95 351-3, 995)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 8 June 1995