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MHG10042 - Carradh Nan Clach

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Centred NC 938 125. Two stone walled hut circles ('A' and 'B'), of simple form, were found during field investigation in association with a small field system on a natural shelf before the steeper ascent of a NE-facing hillside. 'A', NC 9389 1253, is 7.5m diameter inside a wall spread to 2.5m; some inner and outer facing stones west of an entrance in SSE give a wall thickness of 1.3m. A low crudely built, later enclosure abuts on the inside of the SW arc.
'B', NC 9381 1261, less well-preserved is about 7.0m NW-SE by 6.5m internally; the wall survives as a low, overgrown band of rubble spread to 2m; the entrance was probably in SE quarter but the wall here has virtually disappeared.
The fairly level ground between and just beyond the huts has been cleared for cultivation and bears occasional clearance heaps, some linear stone clearance and traces of a wall delinating the southern limits of the system. To the SE of Hut 'B' a complex of tumbled and overgrown walls encloses or partially encloses a shallow hollow but there is little or no evidence of cultivation.
Surveyed at 1:10,560. Visited by OS (J M) 18 February 1976.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 9384 1256 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC91SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	LOTH

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