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Latitude: 57.95 / 57°56'59"N
Longitude: -4.4 / 4°23'59"W
OS Eastings: 258055
OS Northings: 898148
OS Grid: NH580981
Mapcode National: GBR H7HQ.C8W
Mapcode Global: WH3BY.DF0V
Entry Name: Invershin Primary School, settlement 760m NE of and 750m ENE of
Scheduled Date: 1 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5462
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Creich (Highland)
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: North, West and Central Sutherland
Traditional County: Sutherland
This monument consists of the remains of the foundations of several round houses and also traces of associated field systems in two forestry clearings on a W-facing hill slope.
The NW clearing contains the remains of 2 stone-walled houses and an associated field system. One house is visible as an oval platform measuring about 15m by 12m bounded by the ill-defined traces of a stone wall. The foundations of the second house are about 12.5m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to roughly 3m. The entrance is in the S. In close proximity are a number of cairns and lynchets indicating an area of former cultivation.
The SE clearing contains a single house, which is set into the slope and measures 12m in diameter. The wall is 2.5m wide at the rear and splays to 3.5m to either side of the entrance, which is to the SSW. In this area there are traces of former cultivation, indicated by several clearance cairns.
Two areas are to be scheduled: the NW area measures 155m N-S by 75m E-W, the SE area is 110m NNE-SSW by 75m WNW-ESE, to include the hut circles, field systems and an area around in which traces of activities associated with the building and use of the huts will survive, as shown in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric agricultural organisation and domestic life.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 59 NE 9 and 13.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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