Description

The monument comprises three hut circles of prehistoric date, visible as turf-covered wall footings, together with traces of an associated field system.

The monument lies in rough pasture at around 165m OD. It comprises a group of three hut circles on the S flank of a hill. The first is almost entirely buried in peat, and is visible as a shallow depression measuring about 7.5m in diameter. The wall is visible on the SE half as a low rim on the surface of the peat, and there is an entrance on the ESE. The other two hut circles in the group lie about 170m to the SW of the first. The larger of the two, on the W, measures about 11.5m in internal diameter. Its walls survive as a peat-covered bank measuring about 2.5m thick by 0.2-0.3m in height, and there is an entrance on the ESE. The third hut circle measures about 6.5m in internal diameter. Its walls survive as a bank measuring about 2.5m thick by 0.2-0.3m in height. The entrance, on the ESE, is protected by a baffle wall which survives as a stony platform measuring about 6m NE-SW by 4m, by about 0.3m in height. Traces of stone field walls can be discerned around and between the hut circles, suggesting the survival of part of a contemporary field system.

Hut circles such as these 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 measuring 170m along its S side, 200m along its E side, 65m along its N side and 250m along its W side, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland