MHG9761 - Torrish Burn

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Type and Period (1)

  • HUT CIRCLE (Neolithic to Late Iron Age - 4000 BC to 560 AD)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

NC91NE 10 9654 1877.
Hut Circle (NR) OS 6"map, (1964)

Hut circle found during field investigation.
Visited by OS (W D J) 13 May 1960.

This is an oval stone-walled hut circle set on a change of slope open to the S and is approximately 8.5m ESE-WNW by 6.5m internally: the wall, reduced and heather-overgrown averages 1.1m width but at an entrance from he ESE it expands to about 2m. Associated agriculture, is shown by occasional stone clearance heaps particularly on the rising ground to the NE and some areas of stone-free ground.
Revised at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (J M) 29 April 1976.

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    Location

    Grid reference Centred NC 9653 1877 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
    Map sheet NC91NE
    Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
    Civil Parish KILDONAN

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