Monument record MHG9892 - Torrish
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NC 9787 1890 (866m by 413m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NC91NE |
Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
Old County | SUTHERLAND |
Civil Parish | KILDONAN |
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Full Description
NC91NE 42 9757 1881.
(NC 9754 1882) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6"map, (1964)
On the slope of the hill immediately above Torrish, and to the E of the Coulan Burn, is a large group of mounds.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
A circular stone-walled hut circle found during field work.
Visited by OS (W D J) 18 May 1960.
The hut, at corrected plan position NC 9757 1881, is in association with an extensive field system occupying about fifteen hectares of a hillside open to the S.
The hut, set into the slope, is about 9.0m diameter inside a reduced, peat-overgrown wall spread to 2.0m; there is an entrance of simple form inthe south arc. An overgrown field wall extends from the west side of the entrance, curving around in a westerly direction.
The field system is comprised mainly of clearance heaps, fairly evenly spread about 15.0m to 25.0m apart, occasional lynchets and rickles of stones; in the south and east, bands of linear clearance are evident. Several cultivation plots average size 256.0m by 20.0m are discernible. Re-surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 18 May 1976.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG2657 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1911. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland. . 117, No. 334.
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Record last edited
Nov 7 2016 2:58PM