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MHG10313 - Hut circle - Loch Buidhe

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A hut circle at Loch Buidhe.

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NH69NE 10 6728 9859.

At NH 6728 9859, on a shelf high up on a S-facing hillside is a hut circle. It measures approximately 6.5m in diameter within a wall reduced to a heather-covered rubble spread at most pronounced 0.2m high and 1.5m broad. The entrance is in the SE. A gap in the NW arc is almost certainly a later break-through. There are no strict signs of associated land-use, but the vicinity of the hut is relatively stone-free, and there is some suggestion of linear clearance onto the down-slope S from the hut.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 29 August 1980.

DBAs and walkover surveys were carried out by CFA Archaeology Ltd in November 2002 and April 2003 in advance of a proposed wind farm development at Cambusmore Estate, near Bonar Bridge, Sutherland.

This site corresponds to NMRS site NH69NW 10. The site sits on a bluff and consists of a level platform with a low, revetted apron on the down-slope south side. The hut circle on the platform is c.5.5m in diameter and comprises a low turf and stone bank up to 0.3m high and 1-1.5m wide. A break is visible to the NW and a possible entrance exists to the SE. The NMRS records linear field clearance on the down-slope to the south of the hut but no trace could be found of this during the field survey, but the site lies in an area of thick heather cover which may conceal these features. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6728 9859 (50m by 50m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH69NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DORNOCH

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