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MHG62937 - Hut circle - Drumashie Moor 'C'

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A hut circle on Drumashie Moor, originally recorded by the OS as hut circle 'C'.

Centred at NH 631 360 on an undulating SE-facing hillside, is a settlement of three stone-walled huts (A - C) and an associated field system. (All measurements of huts are given between wall centres.)
Hut 'A' measures c. 11.0m in diameter with a wall spread to c. 2.0m all round. Only one outer facing stone is visible, in the S arc. The simple entrance in the E arc is mutilated.
'B' measures c. 13.0m NW-SE by c. 11.5m with a wall spread to c. 3.0m all round. No entrance can be seen.
'C' is c. 12.0m in diameter with a wall spread to c. 2.5m all round. Several outer facing stones are evident in the NE. Flanking the N side of the simple, mutilated entrance in the SE arc is a prostrate slab, possibly a portal stone, measuring 1.2m by 0.8m.
The field system is comprised mainly of ruined field walls, and occasional stone clearance heaps and lynchets, but details of cultivation plots have been obscured by previous afforestation.
Surveyed at 1:10,000. (Visible on OS air photograph 67.198.037.)
Visited by OS (N K B) 17 April 1970.

GIS spatial data created in 2023 according to the location of the feature as seen on 2009 vertical APs. There are slight indications that the hut circle partly overlies a second, possibly earlier, hut circle to the northeast, or it may be an annexe or attached animal pen. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6320 3621 (28m by 31m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH63NW
Civil Parish	DORES
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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