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Latitude: 57.5399 / 57°32'23"N
Longitude: -4.2432 / 4°14'35"W
OS Eastings: 265819
OS Northings: 852190
OS Grid: NH658521
Mapcode National: GBR H8WS.R33
Mapcode Global: WH3DY.SRM7
Entry Name: Culnacraigh,hut circle 450m NNW of
Scheduled Date: 26 January 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4607
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: Knockbain
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Black Isle
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument comprises the remains of a circular house (a hut circle) measuring 10.5m in diameter between the centres of a grass covered wall 2m thick, situated in a clearing in a forestry plantation. The area to be scheduled measures 30m in diameter and consists of the hut circle and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use are likely to survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a representative of a type of house which rarely survives in this part of Scotland. It therefore has the potential to enhance considerably our limited understanding of prehistoric settlement, particularly the nature, and period and process of construction, of round houses.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 65 SE 5.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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