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MHG40341 - Field system - Carn Liath

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Centred at NH 552 180 is a field system marked by stone clearance heaps, stone walls, and a few lynchets, and three widely spaced circular stone-walled huts (A -C) The field system has been overlaid in the W by a depop enclosure with contemporary cultivation.
Hut 'A', at NH 5502 1796, set into a SW-facing slope, is exceptionally well preserved. It measures 8.5m in diameter within a wall 1.5m thick, with the inner face in the NE, partly of blocks on edge and partly dry walling to two courses, revetting the back scarp. The entrance is in the SSW.
'B', at NH 5506 1815, survives as a platform c. 12.0m in diameter with few traces of the wall which has evidently been robbed to built the depop wall which crosses the hut.
'C', at NH 5526 1806, measures 11.5m overall diameter with much of the outer face visible, but none of the inner face. The wall is spread to 2.0m, with an entrance gap in the E.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 3 July 1973

No change to previous field report.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 19 April 1979

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Grid reference	Centred NH 5517 1803 (415m by 306m)
Map sheet	NH51NE
Civil Parish	DORES
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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