Monument record MHG3458 - Rumach Ghorm

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6362 2700 (300m by 300m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH62NW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DAVIOT AND DUNLICHITY
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

NH62NW 17 6362 2700.

At NH 6362 2700, on the brink of a SW-facing slope and separated from NH62NW 16 by boggy ground is an oval stone-walled hut measuring c. 12.0m from the NNW through the ill-defined entrance in the ESE by c. 10.5m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to c. 3.0m all round. Immediately SW of the entrance are four outer facing stones.
In the vicinity are a few stone clearance heaps, probably from contemporary cultivation plots.
Surveyed at 1/10,000 and 25" scale.
Visited by OS (R L) 6 January 1972.

This hut-circle stands in heather on the leading edge of a terrace overlooking boggy ground on the W bank of the River Nairn. It measures 8.5m in diameter within a stony bank spread to 1.6m in thickness and standing 0.3m high. The hut is set into sloping ground on the NE.
Outer facing-stones are visible to the SW of the entrance, which is on the SE, and the wall thickens here to 3.5m.
(USN93 86)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 3 March 1993.

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  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Hut circle.. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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