
Landscape context for the astonishing scenery surrounding the site, seen from Fionn Bheinn to the ESE. The settlement nestles beneath Slioch.
Landscape context for the astonishing scenery surrounding the site, seen from Fionn Bheinn to the ESE. The settlement nestles beneath Slioch.
Photo of hut circle on Canmore.
On a terrace on a S-facing slope at the SW end of Gleann Bianasdail, beside the footpath to the summit of Slioch, there are the bracken-covered remains of a hut-circle, overlain by a shieling-hut and a small pen. The hut-circle measures 8.6m in diameter within a wall spread to 1.3m thick. No outer face is evident, but parts of the inner face survive, especially on the W and N, consisting of edge-set sandstone blocks up to 0.6m high, while a robber trench marks the line of that face on the S and E. Within the hut-circle there are the footings of a subrectangular shieling-hut, aligned NNW-SSE, and immediately beyond the robbed SSE arc of the hut-circle there is a small pen constructed of large stones.