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MHG64443 - Hut circle - Sletdale Burn ('B')

Summary

A hut circle to the north of the Sletdale Burn.

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A hut circle to the north of the Sletdale Burn. Originally recorded by the OS as hut circle 'B'. See MHG10027 for hut circle 'A'.

(A - NC 9292 1269 : B - NC 9304 1268) Enclosures (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)

Two circular enclosures were found during fieldwork.
Visited by OS (E G C) 1 June 1961.

Two stone-walled hut circles (A and B) at corrected grid references NC 9293 1270 and NC 9304 1269 respectively, situated in open heathland to the north of an old river terrace.
'A', on the edge of a slope, is about 10m diameter within an ill-defined wall surviving a a sparse band of overgrown rubble spread to 2m; the wall has been further obscured by a rough track crossing north arc. A depression in the east arc may indicate an entrance.
'B', levelled into a low rise and peat overgrown, is well preserved. It is 11m NNW-SSE by 10.5m inside a wall spread to 3m. The east side of an entrance in the SSE still retains a lining of stone slabs, indicating a wall thickness of about 2.0m at this point. A break in the wall in the ESE is a modern mutilation. About 120m to the ESE are ruins of a dwelling and enclosures of 18th/ 19th century abandoned settlement. Contemporary cultivation is restricted to a well-defined lynchet about 55m south of hut 'A' crossing the slope, and containing between it and the hut an elongated area, of smooth, heather-covered ground free of stone.
Revised at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (J M) 15 January 1976.

The hut circle is just about visible on vertical aerial photographs. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 9304 1269 (34m by 35m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC91SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	LOTH

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