Monument record MHG3510 - Achlascheille
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NH 6918 3723 (770m by 990m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NH63NE |
Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
Civil Parish | DAVIOT AND DUNLICHITY |
Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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NH63NE 41 691 374.
Centred at NH 691 374 on a SW-facing slope are two stone-walled huts (A and B) and an associated field system.
Hut 'A' is circular measuring c. 8.5m between the centres of a wall spread to c. 2.5m. The simple entrance is in the SSE.
Hut 'B' is oval measuring c. 18.0m NNW-SSE by c. 15.0m transversely between the centres of a denuded wall of indeterminate width. Three boulders, one displaced, occur around the E arc. The simple entrance is in the SSE.
The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps lynchets and occasional field walls, defining plots varying between 10.0m by 12.0m and 30.0m by 15.0m.
More than half of it in the NE has recently been ploughed by the Forestry Commission.
Huts surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 March 1970.
Huts surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 8 December 1971.
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Record last edited
May 20 2016 11:30AM