Aberdeenshire HER - NJ31NW0070 - HILL OF RIGHORACH

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Primary ReferenceNJ31NW0070
NameHILL OF RIGHORACH
NRHE Card No.NJ31NW69
NRHE Numlink 126556
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Incomplete
Details Remains of three buildings. A string of three sub-rectangular turf-and-stone-built huts are situated at the northeast end of a ruinous drystone wall. The southwesternmost hut measures about 6.3 m by 3.3 m over heather-grown wall-footings 0.8 m in thickness and 0.3 m in height. There is a central entrance on the southeast, and at the northeast end there are the remains of a degraded outshot measuring 2.7 m in length and 1.6 m in breadth internally. The second hut, immediately to the northeast, measures about 11.2 m by 4 m over heather-grown wall-footings 1 m in thickness and 0.4 m in height. There is a possible entrance on the southeast situated 1.9 m from the northeast corner. The third hut lies immediately northeast of the second and measures about 6.8 m by 3.7 m within heather-grown wall-footings 0.9 m in thickness and 0.4 m in height. There is a central entrance on the southeast.
Last Update09/07/2020
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