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MHG10640 - Hut circle & field system, W of Achnagarron

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NC70SW 44 7282 0488 and 7283 0496.

(A: NC 7283 0487) Hut Circle (NR) (NC 728 049) Field System (NR) OS 1:10,000 map, (1971)

Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (N K B) 22 February 1966.

On W flank of a hill shoulder are two hut circles (A and B) accompanied by a field system. 'B' is newly located at NC 7283 0496.
'A' levelled back into the slope, measures an estimated 12m diameter over an indeterminate wall; entrance no longer survives.
'B', on a shelf, measures about 5 by 4m within a wall reduced to a peat-covered spread of 2m and 0.3m high; entrance appears to be in NE on line of the main axis.
The field system is evident in numerous clearance heaps, spaced on average from 7 to 20m apart, interspersed with tenuous traces of occasional banks and lynchets. A plot 10m by 15m was noted.
Hut A- Revised at 1:10,000. Hut B- surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 12 March 1981.

There are two hut-circles and a scatter of small cairns on the predominately heather-covered shoulder of hill to WNW of Achnagarron. The N hut-circle (ROG95 280, NC 7282 0488, OS 'A') is levelled into the back of a terrace and measures 8.6m in diameter within a stone-and-earth bank spread to 2m in thickness and 0.6m in height. The entrance is on S and there is a break of slope across centre of interior. The second hut-circle (ROG95 281, NC 7283 0496, OS 'B') is much smaller, measuring 4.1m from E to W by 3.8m transversely within a stony bank spread to 1.2m in thickness and 0.4m in height. The S side of hut-circle has been clipped by a trackway.
The small cairns (ROG95 1001), which measure up to 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height, are scattered across broken ground at W end of the shoulder. On date of visit no trace could be seen of the lynchets or plot mentioned by the OS. A terraced trackway contours around W side of hill on W fringe of the small cairns.
(ROG95 280-1, 1001)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 10 May 1995

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Grid reference	Centred NC 7288 0488 (181m by 209m) (3 map features)
Map sheet	NC70SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	ROGART

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