Monument record MHG5175 - Kilmarie House

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 5545 1745 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG51NE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish STRATH

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NG51NE 9 5546 1745.

NG 5546 1745 : 250m NE of Kilmarie House there is a circular enclosure measuring 11.7m in internal diameter with an entrance in the SE quadrant. The walls, 1.3m thick and 0.5, high are formed of a double row of boulders with the cavity filled with rubble.
The enclosure is situated on a gently sloping hillside in the vicinity of a few ruined houses and enclosures in association with old lazy-beds. It is of a type which occurs in various parts of Skye sometimes described by the RCAHM as a stone circle (NG51NE 2) and sometimes as a Hut Circle (NG62SW 5)
Visited by OS (C F W) 19 June 1961; Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/271: 4353-4

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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