Description

The monument comprises a hut circle and field banks of prehistoric date, visible as a series of low banks and turf-covered wall footings.

The monument lies in rough pasture at around 180m OD. It comprises a hut circle scarped into a bank on the NW and measuring about 10m in internal diameter. Its wall survives as a stony bank up to about 2.5m wide by 0.5m in height. The entrance is on the ESE and it is protected by a baffle wall, now surviving as a bank standing about 0.3m high. Hut circles of this type are characteristic of Bronze and Iron Age settlement sites and represent the remains of timber-roofed roundhouses. There are two short lengths of field bank, which run outwards from the hut circle on the NNE and S respectively. The former is visible as a stony scarp which abuts the hut circle, while the latter survives as a low stony bank and stops short of the hut circle's wall, probably indicating an entrance into a field to the W. The extent of this field system cannot be traced any further, although it probably continues below the surface of the peat.

The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is circular with a diameter of 45m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland