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MHG5901 - Hut circle - near Waternish House

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A hut circle near Waternish House, Skye.

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A hut circle 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 23.02 2527 5786. This hut-circle is situated 4m to the SE of NG25NE 23.01. It measures 5.1m in diameter within a bank 1.2m in thickness and 0.5m high. The outer face is visible from the SE to E and more intermittently elsewhere. The entrance may be to the S, and the W side has been terraced to about 0.5m in height while the interior appears to have been levelled into the slope. Lazy-beds over-ride the E side of the hut-circle, where only the inner face of the bank is visible.
(WAT90 858)
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 2525 5784 (14m by 15m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG25NE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	DUIRINISH

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