Monument record MHG9230 - Auchtertyre

NG82NW 4 8440 2723.

The remains of a stone circle, probably a hut circle, lie on the left hand side of the road from Dornie to Balmacara and a little further W than the hill fort (NG82NW 21).
T Wallace 1898.

At the E end of a low ridge are the remains of a circular enclosure, c. 10.5m in diameter, comprising a bank, c. 0.4m maximum height, c. 1.1m average width, formed of turf-and-heather-covered boulders. It is possibly the remains of a hut circle but also possibly of a sheepfold. This is probably the site referred to by Wallace.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 23 September 1966.

This enclosure lies on a slight NE-facing slope into which there has been no attempt to level it. It measures 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a heavily overgrown wall from which a few boulders protrude and which is at the most 1.0m wide. The wall is destroyed in the NE arc for about 4.0m and there is a gap 1.2m wide in the E, probably an entrance.
It is not a sheep fold and although it appears early in date, it does not seem to be a hut circle.
Visited by OS (J M)6 June 1974.