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MHG62863 - Hut circle - Caochan Nam Breac

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A hut circle at Caochan Nam Breac, Aberader.

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A hut circle at Caochan Nam Breac, Aberader. (For the clearance cairns and field system see MHG14157)

Centred at NH 615 272 on a NE slope is a field system obscured by thick heather. Stone clearance heaps and occasional lynchets and ruinous walls mark cultivation plots, two of which measure 15.0m x 10.0m and 30.0m x 20.0m.
Outside the system to the W at NH 6105 2730 is a denuded platform c. 10.0m in diameter with traces of walling around its W arc, and two clearance heaps dumped on its S and E arcs. This may be a hut stance but its condition is too poor to be certain. Around it is cleared ground and a few stone clearance heaps.
Visited by OS (A A) 6 January 1972.

Set into a N-facing slope above Loch Ruthven, there is a possible hut-circle measuring 7m in diameter within a stony wall spread to 1.8m in thickness. The wall is only clearly defined on the W, on the N it has been robbed-out and clearance heaps obscure its line on the E and S. The field-system to the E described by the OS was not found: there are a number of small mounds in the area but these appear to be composed of peat.
(USN93 260)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 5 March 1993.

The hut circle was visited and recorded by S Farrell during a walkover survey in 2022 in advance of a proposed woodland planting scheme. <1>

GIS spatial data created in 2023 according to location of site as seen on 2020 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6108 2729 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH62NW
Civil Parish	DORES
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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