Print

MHG10329 - Hut circle - Meall Clais Nan Each

Summary

No summary available.

Type and Period (1)

Protected Status

Full Description

NH69NE 5 6933 9930.

At NH 6933 9930, high up in a S-facing hillside, is a hut circle with an accompanying minor field system.
The hut, levelled-up and set back into a sheltered shelf, measures 14.0m NW-SE by 13.0m transversely across over a heather-covered wall, best preserved in the SW as a rubble spread 0.5m high and 2.0m broad; an ill-defined entrance is in the SE. Boulder-slab revetting is clearly visible in the SW exterior of the hut stance.
The minor field system comprises a scatter of stone clearance heaps and tenuous signs of occasional lynchets. There are no measureable plots. Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 27 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.

Site 10: High on a south-facing hillside, on a slight terrace in front of a short, low rocky crag is an artificially enhanced level hut platform (NMRS site NH69NE 5). The apron, to the south, is revetted with stone, the hut circle itself is well preserved and defined by a turf and stone bank up to 1m wide and 0.3m high, enclosing an area c.9m in diameter. A shallow ditch lm wide runs around the upslope, northern side of the hut wall which may be an original, drainage gully. An ill-defined entrance, c.1.5-2m wide, is visible in the bank to the ESE. The NMRS records a minor field system of clearance heaps and lynchets. Faint traces of enclosure banks, aligning downslope, are visible attached to the hut circle and two further sections, also aligned downslope, lie c.30m and 50m to the east. <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

Map

Location

Grid reference	Centred NH 6939 9929 (179m by 90m) (3 map features)
Map sheet	NH69NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DORNOCH

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Investigations/Events (1)

External Links (1)