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MHG4896 - Hut circles and/or later buildings - Creag A'Chapuill

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The group of hut circles at the foot of the slope below the cave (NG31NE 5) may well represent the hamlet whose successive generations of Beaker stone-knappers and Iron Age iron-smelters came up to work in the cave. <1>

Below the cave, at NG 398 162, there is a roughly circular ring of stones, some 15.0m in diameter, in close proximity to a ruined cottage. It is more likely to be the vestigial remains of a small yard/enclosure than a hut-circle. No other feature resembling a hut-circle was found in the area, and Mr Maclean of Glen Brittle who is familiar with the locale had no knowledge of any hut-circles hereabouts.
Visited by OS (C F W) 9 April 1961.

There are two buildings. They may have started as substantial round houses but in their current visible form they are are more reminiscent of blackhouses with adjoining barns and yards. JW visited in the company of M.Wildgoose, S.Birch and M.Carmichael on 30/5/02.

MHG4896 and MHG4899 appear to be different interpretations of the same feature [ISL 14/3/17]

Unfortunately there is no available paperwork or annotated map resuting from the site visit in 2002 by Wood, Wildgoose, Birch and Carmichael to more precisley locate the features they saw which may have been the same as those seen by Scott. However, on vertical aerial photography there are two areas of rough ground which appear to contain some stone c.110m to the west of the cave. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 3983 1626 (60m by 60m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG31NE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	BRACADALE

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