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MHG5900 - Hut circle - near Waternish House

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A hut circle near near Waternish House, Skye.

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A hut circle near near Waternish House, Skye.

At least three hut-circles are situated just above the shore of Loch Bay about 1km NW of Waternish House. They have been overlain by cultivation ridges and that to the E appears to have been supplemented by field clearance. There is a small inlet to the S and a fragment of what may be a pre-lazy-bed orthostatic bank running across the contour.

NG25NE 23.01 2526 5786. This hut-circle is situated some 25m from the shore of Loch Bay at a distinct break of slope. It measures 7.4m in diameter within a faced bank 2m to 2.3m in thickness and up to 0.7m in height, on the W, downslope, side. The outer face can be seen from the SE to N while the inner face is rather more intermittent. The entrance is to the SE where there is a gap 1.5m wide in the bank on either side of which are facing stones set transversely to the line of the bank. The W side is terraced to a height of 0.7m and the interior appears to have been levelled. At least one furrow rides over the bank.
(WAT90 857)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 21 November 1990. <1>

The site can be seen on vertical aerial imagery. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 2524 5785 (22m by 22m)
Map sheet	NG25NE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	DUIRINISH

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