Monument record MHG41446 - Glenbanchor Round House

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Location

Grid reference Centred NN 6933 9965 (300m by 300m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NN69NE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KINGUSSIE AND INSH
Geographical Area BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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Full Description

Access Audit 76 - HAW 11/2003

NN69NE 11 centred on 6933 9965
A stone-walled house of unusual plan. It measures about 9m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to 3.0m. In the SE the wall is broken where an oval annexe (5.0m NE-SW by 3.5m) is attached. The entrance is not evident.
In the surrounding area are several stone clearance heaps from contemporary cultivation.
Hut surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 May 1974.

This unusual hut-circle is situated on a broad grass-covered terrace to the NE of the confluence of the Allt a' Chaorainn and the River Calder. It is roughly keyhole-shaped on plan, comprising a penannular bank enclosing an area measuring 7.4m in diameter within a stony bank spread to 3m in thickness, with a subrectangular extension to the SE, which measures 3.5m by 3m internally. The relationship of the subrectangular structure to the penannular bank is not clear but it is likely they are contemporary. The entrance is on the SW, opening through the bank adjacent to the junction of the penannular bank and the extension. Small cairns, measuring up to 4m in diameter and 0.3m in height are scattered across the terrace, largely to the NE of the hut-circle. The ground to the NE of the hut-circle has been ploughed for tree-planting, disturbing some of the cairns.
(KING95 400)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 10 October 1995


F/System, Glenbanchor (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG9720.

House, Glenbanchor (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG9235.

Hut Circle? Glenbanchor (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG9701.

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  • --- Image/Photograph(s): House, Glenbanchor. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Hut Circle? Glenbanchor. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Image/Photograph(s): F/System, Glenbanchor. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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