MHG5749 - Coire Faoin

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

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NG46NW 1 4050 6608.

(NG 4050 6608) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 6"map, (1965)

At NG 4050 6608 levelled into a SE-facing slope is a circular stone-walled hut measuring 7.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread all round to c.30.m. The entrance is not evident but may have been in the NE at the change of slope. The surrounding area shows signs of lazy beds which may have caused a break in the SE of the hut wall but no clearance heaps or signs of contemporary cultivation are apparent.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914; Visited by OS (I S S) 20 September 1971.

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--- SHG2656 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1928. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. . 175, No. 553.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 4049 6608 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG46NW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	KILMUIR

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/11358 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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