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MHG6313 - Hut circle - Stittenham

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A grass covered circle with no stones visible except to the SE where there appears to be the entrance.

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GR corrected to above - HAW 5/2004

NH67SE 25 6541 7468.
At NH 6541 7468 on the brink of a S slope in a pasture field is a circular stone - walled hut c.10.5m in diameter between the centres of a mutilated wall spread to c.3.0m in the N arc, but destroyed in the S by erosion. The indistinct entrance is in the SE outside of which are a number of boulders which are probably displaced from the hut.
There is no evidence of contemporary cultivation.
Visited by OS (N K B) 29 October 1970.

This hut-circle measures about 10.5m in diameter within a wall about 3m thick. The entrance is on the SE and there are outer facing-stones on the N.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978.

A rapid archaeological survey of a proposed Woodland Grant Scheme was conducted by C Dagg at Stittenham Farm, Ardross, Easter Ross in 1999.

Site 7: Hut Circle. A grass covered circle, with no stones visible except to the SE where there appears to be the entrance and a `porch' with three stones visible outwith the circle. Approximate diameter 12m., the circle stands where the land flattens out after rising steeply from the burn. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6541 7469 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH67SE
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	ROSSKEEN

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