One of a group of 12 shieling mounds or hut circles forming the Glen Dhoo settlement, which is centred on SC35308988 and thought to represent a probable Early Medieval settlement of Block Eary type.  


This example is a nicely rounded hut mound with an overall diameter of 5.0 metres and a minimum height of 0.2 metres. Several stones are exposed around the edge of the mound.


The hut circles here are situated on a marshy ground around the gathering point of a northwest flowing stream. The ground rises in all directions to surrounding hills, apart from the northwest, where after 180 metres of gentle downward flow, the stream plunges steeply to the valley below.  The huts are invisible from the valley below but an outlying hut to the east seems almost to act as a look-out. The shallow course of the stream which passes between the huts shows traces of some disturbance. There are fragments of banks in the area, the purpose of which has not been deduced. No entrances have been found to any of the huts.