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Latitude: 57.4451 / 57°26'42"N
Longitude: -4.1551 / 4°9'18"W
OS Eastings: 270757
OS Northings: 841473
OS Grid: NH707414
Mapcode National: GBR J931.HFR
Mapcode Global: WH4GQ.44NB
Entry Name: Bogbain Wood, hut circle and field system 400m SSW of Bogbain Farm
Scheduled Date: 14 July 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4698
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system
Location: Inverness and Bona
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Inverness South
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle and field system of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. The hut circle measures 9.0m in internal diameter within a rubble wall 2.5m wide. The entrance is in the south east. The field system lies mainly to the north but also surrounds the hut circle and consists of well defined stone clearance heaps, occasional field walls and lynchets, sometimes forming cultivation plots.
An old coach road passes close by the hut circle on the east and runs N-S. The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 570m NNE-SSW by 510m transversely, to include the hut circle and and the field system and an area around in which traces of activity associated with their use will survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The site is of national importance as a prehistoric farmstead and field system, which is of particular importance because of its well defined field characteristics; it has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 74 SW 15.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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