Monument record MHG41628 - Clunas

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 8714 4702 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH84NE
Old County NAIRNSHIRE
Civil Parish CAWDOR
Geographical Area NAIRN

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Full Description

NH84NE 15 8714 4702.
In recently reclaimed pasture on a plateau, is an oval stone-walled hut, measuring c.15m WNW-ESE by c.12m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to c.4m all round. The indistinct entrance is in ESE. Within hut are two loose boulders.
Occupying most of plateau are the remains of a contemporary field system, comprising stone clearance heaps and occasional field walls, most of which have been reduced or destroyed by the land reclamation. Cultivation plots, average size 20m by 20m, are discernible where the system is best preserved in NE.
Hut surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (N K B) 21 January 1971;

Visible on RAF APs 106G/Scot/UK/169: 5380-1 - 26 8 1946.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1978. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Nairn District, Highland Region. . 13, No. 67.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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