Monument record MHG9757 - Oulmsdale Burn

NC91NE 14 962 177.

(A - NC 9623 1770: B - NC 9622 1773) Enclosures (NR).
OS 6" map, (1964)

Two stone-walled huts (A and B) found during field work.
Visited by OS (W D J) 17 May 1960.

This is now a settlement of three huts (A-C), with hut B at corrected plan position NC 9622 1772 and the additional hut (C) at NC 9617 1789, in association with a field system. The situation is a hillside open to the W with the huts occupying the more sheltered position.
The contemporary agriculture occupying eight hectares, is marked by an even density of stone clearance heaps, some lynchets and vague traces of occasional field banks or walls; one or two cultivation plots, about 25.0m by 20.0m are discernible.
Huts A and B, though differing in dimension, appear the same structurally; both are turf-overgrown.
'A' is about 11.0m N-S by 10.0m inside a wall spread to 4.0m at an entrance from the S, elsewhere to 3.0m and standing to 0.8m maximum.
'B' is about 6.0m N-S by 5.0m internally; the wall stands to 0.4m maximum but is of uncertain breadth. An entrance is probably from the now depleted S arc. A stone clearance mound abuts on the outside of the SW arc.
'C', on a low spur, is 5.3m diameter internally; the wall, 1.1m broad, remains as intermittent inner and outer facing stones in a reduced spread of overgrown rubble. An entrance is probable from the ESE arc. Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 6 July 1976.