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Currach Cottage is a hut circles site located 330 metres north-east of Currach Cottage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The monument consists of the archaeological remains of prehistoric roundhouses, their circular stone foundations still visible on the landscape. These structures form part of the wider settlement pattern that characterised Bronze Age and Iron Age communities across north-east Scotland, where such hut circles typically served as domestic dwellings for extended family groups or small communities dependent on pastoral farming and subsistence agriculture.
The site sits upon bedrock composed of an unnamed mafic igneous intrusion formed during the Silurian period, part of the ancient geological foundation that underpins Aberdeenshire's rugged terrain. This hard stone landscape would have presented both challenges and opportunities to prehistoric inhabitants seeking suitable locations for settlement, offering natural drainage and defensible positions whilst requiring considerable effort to construct stone-founded structures.
The hut circles remain an important archaeological record of the region's earliest permanent occupants and their adaptation to the north-eastern landscape. The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under the designation SM11658, recognising its significance to Scotland's archaeological heritage and ensuring its preservation for future study and public understanding of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement patterns in the area.
Currach Cottage, hut circles 330m NE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11658. View the official record →
Currach Cottage is a hut circles site located 330 metres north-east of Currach Cottage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11658.
Currach Cottage, hut circles 330m NE of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM11658.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cnoc Cailliche, fort 360m WSW of Upper Wheedlemont (0.4 km), Auchindoir, St Mary's Church, Mote Hill and Dovecot (1.9 km), Limekiln Braes, kiln, quarries and platforms 650m NW of Bar na Beinn (2.6 km).
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Currach Cottage, hut circles 330m NE of stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician To Silurian, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.