Field Visit
Date May 1984
Event ID 1082699
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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This former burial-ground is situated on one of the heavily indented peninsulas at the head of Loch Sween, 1.1km NNE of Rubh' an Oib ('the Point of Oib') and 200m from a sheltered inlet on the E shore of the peninsula. The site lies 30m E of a forest track perpetuating an older path, and an elaborate cross-slab (infra , number 7) formerly stood beside the track.
When White visited the cross-slab in 1869, the burial ground was so overgrown that he did not identify it, and it has subsequently been damaged by timber extraction (en.1). It is placed immediately below a higher terrace which is revetted by the W wall of the enclosure, while to the N the ground slopes to a small valley. A curving wall enclosed the site on E and S, forming an area about 18m from N to S by 6m to 10m in width; the remains of the wall incorporate some massive schist orthostats up to 0.8m high and set transversely. There is no evidence of a chapel, and no gravemarkers appear to be in situ, but the site is associated with an important group of Early Christian carved stones, three of which remain there.
RCAHMS 1992, visited May 1984
[See RCAHMS 1992, 45-47, for a description of the carved stones]
