Monument record MHG39574 - Enclosure, Badnagie

This group of four hut-circles (including OS A-C), which lies in an area of improved ground, extends along the edge of a natural terrace above E bank of the Burn of Houstry.
A (ND 1560 3216). This hut-circle, which is heather and grass-grown, is set into a slight slope and measures 10.5m in diameter overall. The wall is spread 2m in thickness by no more than 0.2m in height (on the E). The entrance is on the S.
B (ND 1564 3211). This hut-circle, which is situated close to the edge of the terrace and 50m SE of hut-circle A, has a very different appearance to others in group. There is little heather or grass cover on walls, which are largely of bare stones, and much stone debris is littered across interior. The hut-circle measures 12.5m in diameter within a wall spread 1.8m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height. The wall retains a well-defined inner face, which in places is three courses high. The entrance is on S, where a passageway formed of large slabs is now blocked with rubble. This rubble may derive from construction of a small enclosure outside wall on W and SW. The wall of enclosure is formed of slabs, some on edge, and for much of its course lies concentric to hut-circle, some 2.5m outside wall. The purpose of this enclosure is uncertain, and it may be of considerably later date than hut-circle.
C (ND 1565 3209). This grass-grown hut-circle is situated 20m SSE of hut-circle B. It measures 13m from N to S by 10.5m transversely within a wall spread to a maximum of 2.2m in thickness and 0.2m in height. There is a possible entrance on the SSE and the ?cross-wall? mentioned by the OS invisible in the E quarter of the interior. Two large stones are visible in the E arc of wall.
D (ND 1560 3219 to be confirmed). The heather-grown enclosure described by OS surveyors some 30m N of hut-circle A is probably another hut-circle, which also lies at the edge of the terrace and is set into the slight slope. It measures 6.5m in diameter within a wall reduced to a bank spread 1.7m in thickness and 0.2m in height. Stones are visible along the line of the bank. There may be an entrance on the S, but this part of the bank has been disturbed.
Several small cairns are visible 150m to the NE.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, IP) August 1997

Centred 1564 3211
Centred ND 156 321, along a natural shelf above the E bank of the Burn of Houstry, are three hut circles (A-C).
'A', at ND 1559 3215, set in the slope, measures 7m in diameter internally, and has an entrance in the S. Its wall is visible as a heather-covered spread at most evident, in the E half, 2m broad by 0.3m high. A short distance N of the hut is a heather-covered feature, some 5m in overall diameter by 0.3 m high, resembling an enclosure of some maturity, though it may only be a disturbed stone clearance heap.
'B', at ND 1563 3211, differs from the other two huts, having markedly bare stone walling and a profusion of stone debris occupying the interior. It measures 7.4m in diameter internally; the wall retains a well-defined inner face showing in part to two courses high, and has an estimated main width of 1.6m, expanding to 3m at the sides of entrance, in S. Outside and concentric with the SW quarter of the hut at a distance of 2.5m is a setting of single slabs on edge. The period and purpose of this feature are uncertain.
'C', at ND 1564 3208, measures 8.5m NNW-SSE by 6.5m transversely within a heather covered wall, 0.2m high and spread to a width of 2m. The entrance is in SSE. A cross-wall, 0.1m high and spread to a width of 1.5m, arcs across the interior of the hut; it suggests a secondary hut. 5.5m in diameter, with an entrance in common with the larger hut.
There are no signs of associated land-use.
Visited by OS (J M) 21 October 1982.