Monument record MHG3939 - Woodside

Summary

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6708 3147 (171m by 385m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH63SE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DAVIOT AND DUNLICHITY
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

NH63SE 25 6703 3137.

At NH 6703 3137, on a knoll, is an oval stone-walled hut measuring c. 11.0m E-W by c. 9.5m transversely between the centres of a mutilated wall spread to c. 2.5m. There is a quarry pit in the E arc. The entrance is not eivdent.
In the vicinity are a number of stone clearance heaps and an occasional lynchet, with at least one cultivation plot measuring c. 30.0m by c. 20.0m evident, hut the area has been wooded in the past and details of plots are generally obscured.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 April 1970.

Hut surveyed at 1.2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 4 January 1972.

This hut-circle is situated on a knoll and measures 8.9m from ENE to WSW by 7.8m transversely within a stony bank spread to 1.8m in thickness and 0.3m in height. An area of disturbance on the ENE appears to be coincidental with the entrance. There is further disturbance in the interior of the hut-circle. The area around the hut-circle has been deep-ploughed and planted with conifers; cairns are visible in some of the plough furrows.
(USN93 39)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 2 December 1992.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1994. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Upper Strathnairn, Inverness: an archaeological survey: summary report. .

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 20 2016 1:37PM

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