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MHG2792 - Field System, Burnton

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Centred 822 288.

Centred at NH 822 288 on a rounded hill top at about 1350ft OD is a field system marked by stone clearance heaps and occasional lynchets. The hill is being reclaimed and many of the clearance heaps are denuded, but where the fields are best preserved in the SW, two typical ones measure c. 50.0m x 20.0m and 25.0m x 10.0m. Ploughed down lynchets are visible in two cultivated fields on the S slope of the hill proving that the system was once more extensive.
On the W and S facing slopes of the hill are two contemporary circular stone-walled huts (A and B).
'A', on a shelf, is in the area being reclaimed and much stone has been removed from the wall. It measures c. 20.0m in diameter between wall centres, with the wall spread to 3.5m where best defined in the S. The entrance is not evident.
'B' levelled into the S slope measures 18.0m overall in diameter with a mutilated entrance in the ESE. Several outer wall facing stones are visible in the W arc, and one in the E just N of the entrance, where there are also give contiguous inner facing stones giving a wall thickness of 1.9m at this point. The S arc is denuded. Several boulders cleared from an adjacent modern field have been rolled into the hut.
Hut 'A' surveyed at 1/10,560.
Hut 'B" surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 25 Feruary 1972.

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Grid reference	Centred NH 8222 2885 (348m by 508m) (4 map features)
Map sheet	NH82NW
Civil Parish	MOY AND DALAROSSIE
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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