Monument record MHG41286 - Hut circle, Loch of Yarrows

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 3097 4286 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND34SW
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish WICK
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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Full Description

Renumbered from ND34SW0044C
JHooper, 25/10/2002
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ND34SW 51 3098 4287.
Set into SW-facing slope, is a circular stone-walled hut heavily covered by heather, measuring 8m diameter between the centres of a wall spread to 2m. Entrance is in SW. In vicinity are one or two small peat-covered mounds with some stone clearance heaps from contemporary cultivation plots although depth of peat hides their true identity.
Surveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (I S S) 14 March 1972.

(Centred ND 309 428) Settlement (NR) (See ND34SW 44 and 45 for other hut circles) OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Surveyed at 1:1000. K Sabine 1980.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Publication/Serial: Proudfoot, E V W and Parker, A M (eds). 1980. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1980. p 18.

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Record last edited

Dec 11 2009 12:28PM

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