Description

This hut circle is situated on a terrace on the E side of Cairnerzean Fell. It is visible as cropped grass and moss with heather, particularly on the banks, amongst the uniform coarse grass of the terrace. It measures 8m in diameter and the wall is 0.4m high. There is also a larger enclosure around it, clearance cairns, a large elongated oval mound of stones 10.8m by 5.8m to the SW and a shieling hut on the enclosure bank NW of the hut circle.

The area proposed for scheduling is a 150m square centred on the hut circle. This includes all the elements described above and an area around and between them in which activities associated with their construction, use and relationships may survive.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance as a group of construction remains of different periods displaying physical relationships and close associations. They preserve information which will help us to understand the use and settlement of the marginal land, the retreat from it and past recognition of, attitudes to and re-use f older monuments.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 8.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland