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MHG11862 - Abhainn A' Chuirp

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NC50NE 65 596 089.

At NC 596 089, on a low ridge bounded by marshy ground is a settlement of four stone-walled huts (A-D) within an associated field system.
Hut 'A' is the best-preserved, and is of more massive construction than the others. It measures 11.5m NW-SE by 10.5m internally within a wall spread to 3.0m broad and 1.0m high. The entrance in the SE arc is clubbed. Within the hut is a circular setting of stones forming an inward face 5.0m in diameter. Its purpose is uncertain, the rest of the interior is strewn with stones.
"B" and "C" are of similar type; the former is 9.0m in diameter within a tumbled overgrown wall 2.0m broad, widening to 3.0m at the entrance in the SE.
'C' is 12.5m N-S by 10.5m E-W within a wall spread to 2.0m broad. Around the outside of the hut in the NE arc, which is slightly uphill, is a ditch-like feature, possibly for drainage.
'D' is 5.0m in diameter within a wall spread to 2.0m broad; the entrance is in the S. A stone clearance heap overlays the wall in the E; from it, heather covered boulder walls extend to and join with hut A to form a sub-circular enclosure about 35.0m in diameter.
Elsewhere the field system comprises mainly stone clearance heaps bounding cultivation plots, average size 30.0m by 10.0m.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 August 1976.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 5959 0895 (179m by 160m) (3 map features)
Map sheet	NC50NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	LAIRG

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