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MHG12166 - Achnairn

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NC51SE 3 5570 1296.

NC 5570 1296. In an area of rough pasture is an oval-shaped hut circle, formed by an earth and stone bank 0.5m high; no entrance is apparent. Against the bank, on the NE side, are the footings of a rectangular structure measuring 5.5 by 2.8m. Surveyed at 1:2500. About 35m to the W is a robbed clearance heap (6 by 4.0m) which gives a false appearance of being a hut circle.
Visited by OS (EGC) 23 June 1963

This hut lies on the edge of an area of forestry and is still clearly defined. It has been built into the slope in the NE and measures 8.0m SE-NW by 6.5m internally. The entrance was probably in the SE. The footings described above have been destroyed by forestry ploughing.
One or two clearance heaps are to be seen in the area but as the majority of the surrounding ground is afforested, no other traces of contemporary cultivation are visible.
Surveyed at 1:2500 and 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JB) 13 August 1976

This hut-circle is set in a small clearing on the edge of a break in the forest. It measures 6.5m in internal diameter with a bank 1.8m wide surviving up to 0.5m high. A single external facing stone remains to
the SSE.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF) 14 October 1989.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 5570 1296 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC51SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	LAIRG

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