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MHG64144 - Hut circle - Acres ('D')

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A hut circle at Acres.

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A hut circle at Acres. First recorded by the OS as hut circle 'D'. See MHG5109 for 'A', MHG64142 for 'B' and MHG64143 for 'C'.

NG44SE 7 4846 4050 and 4856 4038.

(NG 4846 4050) Enclosure (NR) (NG 4856 4038) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6"map, (1969)

Centred at NG 485 404 on a N-facing slope, a settlement of four circular stone walled huts (A - D).
Hut 'A' is 11.5m NW-SE by 11.0m transversely internal diameter with inner and outer wall faces visible intermittently giving a wall thickness of 1.3m at the rear gradually increasing to 1.8m at the simple entrance in the SE. Two stones on edge flank the NE side of the entrance but the SW side is mutilated although there are indications that the entrance has been c. 15m in width.
Hut 'B' is in poor condition and visible mainly as a platform built up on the slope edged by a denuded wall, spread to an indeterminate width and measuring c. 12.0m between its centres. One or two outer facing stones are visible particularly in the S arc. The entrance is not evident.
Hut 'C' is 7.2m internally with the inner face visible all round and the outer face visible in the S arc giving a wall thickness of 1.8m. The S side of the simple entrance in the E is flanked by a single earthfast boulder but the other side is denuded.
Hut 'D' is 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to 2.5m and destroyed in the S arc. The entrance is not evident.
Huts 'C' and 'D' occur in the vicinity of a ruinous rambling stone wall which passes 2.0m outside the entrance of hut 'D' and is almost certainly contemporary. The area around huts 'A' & 'B' has been dug for peats and there is no trace of contemporary cultivation.
About 100.0m to the E of hut 'A' is an artificial looking flat-topped mound surmounting a rise and measuring 12.0m NE-SW by 10.5 transversely and c. 0.6m high. Some stone is visible in the SE and NW but otherwise it is too obscured by peat to classify as a cairn with certainty.
Visited by OS (C F W) 20 April 1961 and (I S S) 3 October 1961.

The site is possibly visible in vertical aerial photographs taken in 2023. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 4847 4029 (26m by 25m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG44SE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	PORTREE

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