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MHG10591 - Cnoc Bad A'Chlair

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(A: NC 7575 3296 and B: NC 7573 3297) Enclosures (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)

On the gentle, lower NW slopes of Cnoc Bad a' Chlair are two hut circles (A and B) in association with a minor field system, discovered during field investigation (OS {JLD}). An alleged hut (OS {JLD}) in the midst of a shieling group (NC73SE 20) about 100.0m to the SW is merely a fortuitous boulder setting.
The huts, oval in form, are set into the slope and are of a similar type. The wall in both is reduced to a peat-covered rubble spread 2.0m broad and standing at best, in hut B to 0.5m; internal dimensions of 'A' and 'B' respectively, are 10.0 by 8.0m and 13.0 by 9.5m, and each has an entrance from the SE on the line of the longer axis. In the interior of hut A a large heathery mound abutting the east arc suggests field-stones dumping. The minor field system extends over about two hectares and is mainly denoted by piles of stone clearance, sporadic in the south but otherwise spaced on average 20.0m apart; also tenuous signs of walling and lynchets occur. A cultivation plot, 20.0 by 10.0m was noted.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JLD) 23 May 1961 and (JM) 9 February 1977.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 7571 3298 (217m by 184m) (4 map features)
Map sheet	NC73SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	KILDONAN

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