MHG12556 - Hut circle - Loch Modsarie

Summary

A hut circle near Loch Modsarie.

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  • None recorded

Full Description

A hut circle near Loch Modsarie. See MHG66011 for the field system.

At NC 6460 6103, on a dry knoll within a minor field system, is a heather covered hut circle, measuring 10.5m west north west - east south east by 9.1m within a wall 1.5m wide and surviving to 0.5m maximum height. Intermittent inner facing slabs and one or two outers are exposed. The entrance, unusually, is on the shorter axis in the south south west arc, flanked on the east side by a side slab 1.0m long. The minor field system comprises scattered clearance heaps, most of which occur in a natural hollow, now marshy and overgrown with peat.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 28 August 1978.

The site is visible in vertical aerial photography. <1> <2> <3>

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 6460 6102 (21m by 21m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NC66SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish TONGUE

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