Archaeology Notes

Event ID 724178

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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The Old Statistical Account says that on the lands of Ardwell "are some remains of druid temples and Pictish castles". 'Ardwell Broch is doubtless a 'Pictish castle', but only an occasional standing stone survives in the parish to suggest 'druid' remains. The report, however, supports Dr Trotter's statement that Clachanmore village, half a mile from Clachanmore farm, took its name "from a large Druidical Circle that formerly existed there". Sir Herbert Maxwell merely says that the name means either "the great stones, or big village", and Trotter might similarly be given a possible interpretation rather than an actual tradition. Taken in conjunction however, with the Statistical Account, his story can be respected.

OSA 1791; R Trotter 1877; H E Maxwell 1887; J Murray 1981.