Monument record MHG55121 - House (Building C5), Balmacqueen

A subrectangular drystone building measuring 11.2m long externally is a degraded state, though appears to have been separated into two square-like chambers. The W chamber measures 6.0m E-W by 3.3m wide and the E chamber measures 5.2m E-W by 3.15m wide externally. The S wall of both chambers is revetted into the hillslope, with the W side of the wall surviving best, up to 0.8m high. There is a 1.1m-wide entrance, mostly degraded, in the N wall where the walls appear to be double-faced of boulder and large stone construction and stand 0.65m high on the W side and 0.4m high on the E side. The E side of the building is less discernible: although the NE corner of the structure is squared it ends abruptly at the drainage channel, which separates Site C4 and Site C5, and the wall footing, of rubble stone construction, are less visible. The interior of the E chamber is infilled with stone/soil, in contrast to the W chamber, possibly to serve a later function as a 'platform' or some such structure. <1>