Monument record MHG7766 - Hut circles - Creag Mhor

NG99SE 1 9608 9284 to 9615 9279.

Some 200 m to N of Creag Mhor, between 100 ft and 200 ft contours, on steep side of hill sloping down to "Gruinard Bay", there are the remains of two hut circles.
"A" (NG 9608 9284) measures 7.6m internal diameter, with walls 2.0m wide and 0.5m high having its entrance in SE. A feature of this hut circle is that it has been built on a natural grassy plateau and supported by natural rock along the NW periphery.
Hut circle "B" (NG 9615 9279) is in a much better condition than "A", and measures 7.6m internal diameter with walls 3.0m thick and 1.0m high, composed of large base stones with smaller stone infilling between the inner and outer walls. The entrance, 1.6m wide, is in the NW.
Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (R B) 7 April 1965;
Visible on RAF AP CPE/Scot/UK 321: 4086-7

These two hut circle were visited during a walkover survey by C Dagg in 2008 in advance of a proposed OHL replacement scheme between Aultbea and Dundonnell. It was considered that they lay some distance to the north of the line of the new OHL and would not be affected. It was also noted that there were some traces of wall on this north-facing slope but no features potentially related to prehistoric cultivation were noted between the two hut circles and a further hut circle to the south-east (see MHG49729). The ground was overgrown with heather and such features maty have been obscured. <1>