MHG3454 - Torness Hut Circle

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Type and Period (1)

  • HUT CIRCLE (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NH52NE 1 5787 2748.

At NH 5786 2748 at the edge of modern cultivation, is a denuded, stone-walled hut c 9.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to c 2.5m all round. The simple entrance in the ESE is c 1.0m wide. There is no trace of a field system.
Visited by OS (N K B) 19 January 1970

Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (A A) 16 November 1971

(NH 5787 2748) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 25"map, (1972)

No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J M) 1 Feburary 1972

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 5786 2748 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH52NE
Civil Parish DORES
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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