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MHG10130 - Hut circle - Daliel

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Cairn (NR) OS 6" map, (1964)

Close to the south side of the road are the remains of what seems to have been a cairn. The rim alone remains, 0.8m maximum height, and the overall diameter is 19m.
Visited by OS (J L D) 8 June 1960.

This structure more closely resembles a mutilated hut circle than a robbed cairn. It is situated on a natural terrace above the river flood-plain, and measures 12m in diameter within what is almost certainly a tumbled wall 0.6m high, spread to 2.5m wide, in which eight large stones on edge, presumably the inner face, remain. A single slab set radially in the "wall" may be a portal stone, though no entrance gap is apparent. The interior is level though strewn with stones. A catch drain has recently been dug destroying the north arc revealing a rubble content; three boulders, possibly inner facing stones, have been displaced.
There is one, possibly two, stone clearance heaps and relatively stone-free ground on the terrace to the east; the area to the south is more recently cultivated.
Revised at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (N K B) 2 December 1976.

The site is visible as a circular feature in vertical aerial photography. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred ND 0052 1789 (25m by 25m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND01NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	KILDONAN

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