Monument record MHG3644 - Cairn Gollan

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6445 3304 (435m by 523m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH63SW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DORES
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

Centred at NH 645 330 on a ridge is a settlement of five denuded stone-walled huts (A - E) and an associated field system. (All measurements across the huts are given between wall centres.)
Hut 'A', on a rise, is visible as a platform, c. 10.0m in diameter, bounded by traces of a wall. No entrance is apparent. A grouse butt is excavated into the wall on the NW side.
'B', on a knoll, survives as a platform measuring c. 11.0m ESE-WNW by
c. 9.5m, bounded by traces of a wall. No entrance is apparent.
'C' is c. 10.0m in diameter, with a wall spread to c. 2.5m all round. The 'simple' entrance in the SW is ill-defined.
'D' measures c. 13.0m NW-SE by c. 11.5m, with a wall spread to c. 3.0m at the mutilated entrance in the SE, but barely visible elsewhere.
'E', set into a S-facing slope, is c. 9.5m in diameter with the wall of indeterminate thickness. In the NNW arc are three stones of the inner face. The entrance is not apparent.
The field system comprises stone clearance heaps and lynchets forming cultivation plots, one of which adjacent to hut E, measures c. 30.0m x c. 20.0m. Within the field system is a robbed cairn (NH63SW 57).
Huts surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 27 Feburary 1970.

Hut circle 'C' has been destroyed by a modern track.
Visited by D W Ross November 1983.

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Record last edited

May 18 2016 11:47AM

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