Monument record MHG56888 - Hut platform, Banchor

Summary

A Bronze Age-Iron Age hut platform at Banchor, Moy and Dalrossie.

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Grid reference Centred NH 7642 2410 (24m by 24m)
Map sheet NH72SE
Operational Area INVERNESS NAIRN BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
Civil Parish MOY AND DALAROSSIE
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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At NH 7643 2408 outside the NW edge of a field system (see MHG2850) is a probably contemporary circular hut platform set into a NW slope and measuring c. 15.0m in diameter. There are traces of a stone revetment around it with an ill-defined break in the NE probably representing the entrance, to the N of which is a stony mound, probably a clearance heap, lying against the wall.
Hut surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 December 1971.

It is visible on APs taken in 2011.

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Record last edited

Feb 17 2015 1:27PM

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