Monument record MHG42065 - Skelpick
Summary
No summary available.
Location
Grid reference | Centred NC 7239 5680 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NC75NW |
Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
Old County | SUTHERLAND |
Civil Parish | FARR |
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Tumuli (NR) (22 shown) OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., (1873)
Small cairns in which are interred human remains.
Name Book 1873.
This area of a shelving, W-facing hillside contains a hut circle with an associated field system and enclosure.
The hut circle, on a shelf at NC 7257 5686, has been set into the slope on E. It measures about 8.7m diameter within a stone wall spread to 2.5m wide and 0.4m high. The simple entrance is in S. The heather-covered enclosure at NC 7239 5694 is sub-rectangular and set into the W-facing slope. Internally it measures 15m E-W by approximately 5m transversely. The stone wall is spread to 2m and stands up to 0.6m high; its E end is obscured by rubble. In NE, a poorly-defined gap possibly marks the entrance. The age and purpose of this structure cannot be determined; the peat and heather cover suggests it is ancient and therefore possibly contemporary with hut circle. The field system, defined by clearance heaps, none of which show obvious signs of being burial cairns, covers about 9 ha; no cultivation plots are discernible. Later cultivation, represented by rig and furrow, linear clearance and wasted walls, intrudes upon the field system. In places stones have been added to the earlier clearance heaps.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J L D) 2 May 1960 and (J B) 12 December 1978.
Sources/Archives (9)
- --- SHG17940 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick, (a). Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17941 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17942 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17943 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17944 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17945 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17946 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17987 Image/Photograph(s): Skelpick. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG3351 Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 20, 136.
Finds (0)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM