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MHG12530 - Hut circles, Creag Dhubh

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NC63NE 24 669 382.
Centered on NC 669 382, on low lying broken ground of southerly aspect, is a settlement of 3 hut circles (A-C) in association with a minor field system. The latter, about 3 hectares area, is denoted in some rickles and heaps of stone clearance and, to NE of hut 'B', in a wasted stretch of field walling; measurable cultivation plots are not discernible. The huts are generally heather-covered; 'A' and 'C' are broadly similar in build; 'B', lightly scooped out of the slope, is a comparatively frail structure.
Hut 'A' is 8.5 NW-SE by 7.5m inside a wall spread to 1.5-2.m broad and standing 0.4m high. One or two large stones are visible in the hut construction, in particular an outer facing slab abutting the entrance in SE quarter.
'B' is about 5.5m internal diameter. The west segment seems to have been quarried out and the north arc is overlaid by a stony mound; elsewhere the wall is reduced to a low spread 1-1.5m broad. The entrance is no longer evident.
'C', very much reduced, is about 10.5 by 9m within a wall spread to 1.5m broad. The entrance is from S quarter on line of longer axis.
Surveyed at 1:10 560. Visited by OS (J M) 18 March 1977.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 6698 3825 (224m by 202m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC63NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	FARR

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