Monument record MHG9755 - Oulmsdale Burn

(Centred NC 958 174) Enclosures (NR) (Four shown A-D).
OS 6" map, (1964)

Four hut circles were located during field investigation.


On a gentle N-facing moorland hillslope is a settlement of four hut circles (A-D) within a field system.
The huts are broadly similar, though obscured by peat and heather-growth, and C and D are denuded. The entrance to each hut is in the E arc. B, the best- preserved, measures 10.5m E-W by 8.5m N-S internally within a wall spread to about 3.0m broad, but widening to 3.5m at the entrance which appears club-shaped. A stone clearance heap occurs just outside the entrance in the manner of a windbreak. Hut a is 8.0m internal diameter within a wall spread to 3.0m, widening to 3.5m at the entrance, which may be clubbed. A lynchet extends from the SW arc. Huts C and D each measure internally 9.5m E-W by 8.0m N-S.
The field system is clearly defined in the vicinity of the huts by cultivation plots delineated by stone clearance heaps and lynchets. One plot adjacent to hut D measures 38.0m by 26.0m. The plots are not obvious on the fringes of the system, where the clearance is more widely scattered.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 24 May 1976.