MHG5352 - Torran A'Chleibh

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

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NG81NW 4 8380 1730.

(Area: NG 838 174). A fragmentary and grass-grown circle of stones is situated between Glenelg and Glen Beag at about 500' OD and just E of Correry Farm, and Dun Trotan. It has an internal diameter of c. 30' with a wall 5' thick. Some of the stones are large.
L Bogle 1895.

This is a circular stone-walled house in a poor state of preservation at NG 8380 1730.
It is visible as a platform set into a SW-facing slope, surrounded by a mutilated wall measuring 10.0m between its centres. Entrance not evident.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 26 June 1974.

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--- SHG1205 Text/Publication/Article: Bogle, L. 1895. 'Notes on some prehistoric structures in Glenelg and Kintail', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 29 1894-5, p.180-90. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 180-90. 180; plan, fig. 1.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 8379 1730 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG81NW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	GLENELG

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