Monument record MHG47185 - Buntait

NMRS Report: (14/04/2004)
NH33SE 1.02 3917 3134

(Centred NH 395 313) Settlement and Field System (NR) (11 huts shown)
OS 25 " map, (1967)

Part of a settlement of 13 stone-walled huts (A - N) and a contemporary field system. The interior of each hut is circular. The entrances, where visible, are in the SE.
Hut 'A' (unpublished) is c. 10.0m in diameter within a wall spread to c.3.0m in the NW, widening gradually to c. 3.7m at the simple entrance, c. 1.3m wide. One or two outer facing stones protrude in the NE arc. Some 4.0m outside the hut circle around the E arc is a linear clearance heap and around the N arc is a ditch, uncertainly contemporary for drainage, or natural.
'B' is c. 6.3m in diameter within a wall spread to c.2.5m in the NW widening gradually to c. 4.5m at the entrance. The SW side of the entrance extends outwards towards the SE for a distance of about 3.0m, possibly to form a windbreak.
The field system, comprising field walls, lynchets, and stone clearance heaps, is best preserved in the vicinity of huts 'A' and 'M', where two fields measure c. 50.0m by 30.0m and 40.0m by 16.0m respectively.
Huts 'B' - 'M' surveyed at 1:2500. (Visited by OS (N K B) 11 December 1964) (Visible on RAF air photograph RAF/541/A/395:3163-4)
Extent of field system delineated on 6" sheet.
Survey Diagram.
Visited by OS (NKB) 5 October 1970

In the unimproved fringes of a field there are the remains of two hut-circles, two burial cairns (see NH33SE 9), a building, some small cairns and some field-banks.
The two hut-circles, which have previously been described by the OS as A and B, lie on the W (URQ97 407) and E (URQ97 406) edges of the field respectively. The former, which has rushes growing within its interior, measures 11m in diameter within a stone-faced wall 2.5m in thickness and 0.5m in height, and there is an entrance on the SSW. The latter is slightly oval on plan and measures 6.8m from NNW to SSE by 6m transversely within a stone-faced wall 2.8m in thickness and 0.4m in height, which expands to 3.9m in thickness to either side of the entrance on the SSE. The entrance opens onto a terrace about 2m wide, and a later track cuts the bank of the hut-circle on the NW. The building lies near the E hut-circle, and is partly robbed, measuring 21.2m from ENE to WSW by 5.8m transversely over faced-rubble walls 1m in thickness and 0.25m in height. A mound of rubble has been dumped on the W end (URQ97467, NH 3913 3133). The small cairns are scattered in a strip up to about 65m wide around the SE, SW and NW sides of the field, and there are several stony banks describing sinuous courses in amongst them.
(URQ97 406-7, 467)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 18 August and 20 October 1997