Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Caochan Poll Nan Gabhar

Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Caochan Poll Nan Gabhar

Classification Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 14999

Site Number NH84NE 12

NGR NH 85642 45586

NGR Description NH 85642 45586 and NH 85789 45486

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14999

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
Canmore Disclaimer. © Copyright and database right 2024.

Toggle Aerial | View on large map

Digital Images

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Cawdor
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Nairn
  • Former County Nairn

Archaeology Notes

NH84NE 12 857 454.

(Area centred NH 857 454) Field clearance.

Visible on RAF air photographs F21/58/RAF/1116: 0067-9 - flown 8 May 1953.

Centred at NH 857 455 is a settlement of three hut circles (A-C) and an ill-defined contemporary field system.

Hut "A" is circular and measures c.12.5m in diameter between the centres of a wall greatly obscured by peat. The ill-defined entrance is in the ESE.

Huts "B" and "C" are contiguous. Each is oval and measures c.12.5m by c.10.0m between the centres of a wall spread to c.3.0m. The long axis in "B" is W-E with the simple entrance in the E. The long axis in "C" is NW- SE with the ill-defined entrance in the SE.

The field system is comprised of stone clearance heaps greatly obscured by peat and heather and no details of cultivation plots could be ascertained. There are traces of field walls in the W.

Surveyed at 1/10 000.

Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1971.

Activities

Field Visit (April 1978)

Caochan Poll nan Gabhar 1 NH 857 454 NH84NE 12

Three hut-circles and a number of small cairns have been recorded in this area by the OS. None of the hut-circles could be located at the date of visit.

RCAHMS 1978, visited April 1978

References

MyCanmore Image Contributions


Contribute an Image

MyCanmore Text Contributions