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MHG11973 - Lairg Station

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(A : NC 5884 0361 B : NC 5897 0361) Hut Circles (NR).
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)

Hut circles and field clearance.
Surveyed at 1:2500. OS 6"map annotated by K Frost 21 11 1966

This is a settlement of 6 stone-walled hut circles (A-F) (four additional huts (C-F) were found) in association with a field system. The situation is the S-facing flank of a hill. The field system occupying three hectares comprises mainly stone clearance heaps; there are also, occasional, ill-defined lynchets and vestiges of field walls or banks which delineate cultivation plots varying in size from 45m by 20m to 15m by 10m. The huts, peat-covered and in the main much reduced, are broadly similar.
Huts A and B are the best preserved.
'A' is, about 10m N-S by 7m inside a wall spread to 2m; an entrance is from S.
'B' is about 9m NNE-SSW by 7.5m internally; a wall spread of 1.5m increases to 2.5m at an entrance, possibly splayed, from SSW.
Huts C-F, generally are most distinguished by their levelled stances, the walls remaining only in part and that, at best, as a spread of 1.5-2m. Their interior dimensions vary from 7.5m by 6.5m to 9.5m by 8m. Entrances where visible are on S arc on the longer axis. Huts A and B re-surveyed at 1:2500 and 1:10 000.
Huts F and C surveyed at 1:2500 and 1:10 000.
Hut D and E surveyed at 1:10 000. Visited by OS (JM) 3 8 1976.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 5891 0361 (363m by 136m) (3 map features)
Map sheet	NC50SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CREICH

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