Description

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

The monument lies in moorland at around 195m OD, immediately adjacent to a road. It comprises a hut circle measuring about 4.6m in internal diameter. Its walls survive as a stony bank up to 0.5m in height, with an entrance on the E. Some 30m to the ENE of the hut circle there is an oval enclosure, measuring about 20m by 18m internally, defined by a stony bank measuring between about 1.8m and 3m thick and up to 0.5m in height. Hut circles are characteristic of Bronze and Iron Age settlement sites and represent the remains of timber-roofed roundhouses.

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 an irregular quadrilateral, its SE corner lying on the W edge of a public road, with a maximum E-W dimension of 80m and maximum N-S dimension of 45m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland