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MHG10994 - Balnacoil Hill

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NC81SW 10 8024 1196 and 8050 1179.

('A' NC 8024 1196) Hut circle (NR). ('B' NC 8050 1179) Hut circle (NR). OS 6"map, (1969)

Hut circles discovered and surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (R D L) 28 April 1964.

'A'. Hut circle with a near contiguous inner face of boulders giving an internal diameter of 7.5m. The coursed wall appears to have been 1.7m thick, surviving to 0.8m at the W side of the entrance in the SSW, suggesting that the hut may have been utilised possibly as a sheepfold at a much later date.
'B'. Measuring 9.5m internally with the inner face surviving intermittently. The wall has been 1.6m thick and it is overlaid by heather and peat. No entrance is visible.
The huts are set on a stone strewn W-facing slope; no clear traces of contemporary cultivation among this broken ground.
Visited by OS (J B) 30 December 1975.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 8024 1196 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC81SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CLYNE

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