Harvieston

Nearest town:
Dornoch (43km S)
OS reference:
NC839317
OS sheet:
17
Latitude:
58° 15' 31.61 N
Longitude:
3° 58' 43.76 W
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Image of Harvieston (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Another cairn.... Carn Richard looms on the horizon like Mother Hen.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2014
Image of Harvieston (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

A cairn between settlement and Carn Richard. One of many, seemingly feature too much ‘structure’ to be clearance?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2014
Image of Harvieston (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

The River Helmsdale flows beneath. This settlement’s raison d’etre. Pardon my French.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2014
Image of Harvieston (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

The eastern hut circle. Note my car below.... easy access, but a bit of an uphill slog to Carn Richard (albeit short). At least I thought so. Needless to say I thought this ancient settlement was Carn Richard from the road.... I’ve no problem with errors such as that.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2014
Image of Harvieston (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Looking toward the eastern hut circle. I swear I could almost feel the presence of ‘those that went before’ here. Almost. The Helmsdale is much more elegant than The Fat Boys twisting its way to Kinbrace. Enough to drive a Roman engineer ‘round the bend.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2014
Image of Harvieston (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

It was tempting to imagine the people who lived in this, the western of the two large hut circles here, built/helped build the nearby Carn Richard chambered cairn. Not sure of the chronology, though?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 16, 2014

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Harvieston
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 24, 2015

Located near to the fine chambered cairn Carn Richard this settlement, well positioned overlooking the River Helmsdale, consists of seven round houses, two of which are particularly well preserved... and an enclosure to boot.

The site was “found during field investigation in 1961 on a south facing hill-slope where RCAHM in 1909 had reported a field system. A further hut at NC 83773170 was discovered in 1968”

[RCAHM 1911; OS (WDJ, 1961; AA, 1968]

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