Field Visit

Date 8 September 2015

Event ID 1047654

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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This slate built enclosure (probably a garden) is in a ruinous state. The enclosure measures 14.5m in length by 9.0m in width and contains wild vegetation.

It does not appear on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire, (surveyed 1871) published 1872, sheet CXXI.7) which shows a large area of garden plots. The remains of the earlier gardens would have been overlain by waste or destroyed when quarry NM71NW 117 was extended after 1871.

The enclosure does not appear on the 2nd edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire, 1898, sheet CXXI.7) and so probably post dates the abandonment of quarries NM71NW 116 and 117. It overlies the tramway shown on the 1898 map.

Visited by HES Survey and Recording Section, Architecture and Industry (MMD), 8 September 2015.