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MHG12016 - Cnoc Ma Moine

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NC36NE 34 391 659.

(NC 3918 6593) Probable hut circle with a most unusual entrance; 27 1/2 ft by 28 ft.
(NC 3918 6597)
(i) Ruined hut circle, overall 36 ft.
(ii) Some 50 ft to the S is a hut circle, with a complex entrance facing E; overall 32 ft.
Information from Dr C S Sandeman, Durness, 14 March 1967.

(NC 391 659) A group of three hut circles (A - C) lying between the 150 ft and 175 ft contours.
'A', at NC 3918 6593, is built against a steep bank. It measures 29 ft by 37 ft 6 ins overall and has an extended entrance.
'B' at NC 3918 6597, measures 36ft overall.
'C' lies about 50 ft S of 'B' and has measured about 32 ft overall. The entrance is sheltered by a boomerang-shaped arrangement of stones, thought to have protected a cooking-fire.
R W K Reid 1968.

The site, in a valley of broken limestone country, comprises two hut circles ('A' and 'C'). 'B' was not certainly identified, but an arc of walling at the given location has possibly been interpreted as a hut. 'A', at NC 3918 6592, is as described above, being 8.0m N-S by 6.0m internally. The elongated entrance in the S is 2.8m long and 0.7m
wide. The hut wall is more evident on the E side, opposite the steep slope, where it is spread to 2.0m and 0.4m high. A number of outer facing stones are visible around this arc.
'C', at NC 3920 6596, is about 7.5m in diameter within a wall spread to 1.5m and 0.3m high. The entrance is in the E with an upright slab 0.5m high probably defining the inner S side. The 'boomerang-shaped arrangement of stones' was not noted. A sheep track crossing the hut has slightly disfigured the wall in two places in the S. The wall is best-preserved in the SSE where some outer facing stones show. A small number of widely scattered clearance heaps are the only evidence of contemporary cultivation.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 17 April 1980.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 3918 6595 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC36NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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