MHG34401 - Site of Hut Circle Settlement, Strone
Summary
Site of hut circle settlement and associated cairnfield.
Type and Period (1)
- HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
Protected Status
- None recorded
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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
Five hut-circles are situated on a S-facing hillside within a felled plantation to the N of Croftbegg. Four of the hut-circles measure between 6.9m in diameter and 8.4m by 7m within stony banks spread up to 2.8m in thickness and 0.5m in height, with entrances on the SE or SSE. A substantial baffle wall, enclosing an area measuring 4.6m by 4.3m, protects the entrance to one of the hut-circles (KING95 432). The fifth hut-circle (KING95 433) is larger, measuring 10.9m by 8.7m internally, with what may be the entrance on the NNW.
The hut-circles are situated within a scatter of at least thirty small cairns (KING95 435), measuring up to 8m in diameter and 0.7m in height, which extend for at least 30m into the dense birch woodland that borders the SE end of the felled plantation.
(KING95 432-6, 484)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 11 October 1995
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NH 7174 0006 (300m by 300m) (2 map features) |
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Map sheet | NH70SW |
Civil Parish | KINGUSSIE AND INSH |
Geographical Area | BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY |
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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
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External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/139844 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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