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 is a good example of a raised mound with hut circle on top. It is raised an average of 0.5 metres high and has an internal diameter of 3.0 metres. The hut circle wall base is 1.0 metres wide and has an internal height of 0.1 metres.


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.