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MHG44637 - Possible Structure, Loch Borralie

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(NC 3854 6730) Hut circle with butt or lambing pen built inside it, overall 19 1/2 ft.
(NC 3860 6731) Hut circle with later structure partially on and partially inside it, overall 29 ft.
Information from Dr C S Sandeman, Durness, 14 March 1967.

Hut circles.
R W K Reid 1968.

Neither of the structures described are hut circles. That at NC 3854 6730 at the end of a low point on the E side of Loch Borralie survives as a sub-circular spread of stones about 5.5m in diameter suggesting a crude bothy, which has been overlaid by a lambing pen occupying the W side. Alternatively the spread of stones may be a natural formation displaced from a nearby rock face.
The other structure, at NC 3862 6732, comprises a rectangular enclosure, 5.0m by 3.5m internally, with a D-shaped enclosure 5.0m by 2.5m abutting on the N side. Both are early modern in date.
Visited by OS (N K B) 28 May 1980.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 3861 6731 (60m by 60m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC36NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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