MHG1811 - Hut Circles, Camster
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Type and Period (1)
- HUT CIRCLE (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
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- None recorded
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Full Description
Set into a SE-facing slope is a circular stone-walled hut about 9m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to an indeterminate width. SE arc is mutilated and the entrance is not evident.
Some 30 m to NE on a shelf is another circular hut measuring about 11m in diameter in between centres of an ill-defined peat-covered wall, mutilated in S. The ill-defined entrance is in E arc.
There is no trace of contemporary cultivation.
Surveyed at 1/10 000. Visited by OS (A A) 6 April 1972.
(ND 2548 4440) Hut Circles (NR) OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred ND 2547 4440 (43m by 51m) (3 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | ND24SE |
| Civil Parish | WICK |
| Geographical Area | CAITHNESS |
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External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/8688 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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