Note

Date 1993

Event ID 1112504

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1112504

NR 391 678. These workings lie 150m adjacent to the SE shore of Loch Finlaggan and are named after the 18th-century 'tack' called 'Port Nealon' and refers to 'the port serving the islands of loch Finlaggan'. A low trench is transected by a dry-stone boundary wall, adjacent to this is a shaft and a series of drifts with a depth of about 1m and are surrounded by spoil which is 1m to 2m high. The trench may well have been an adit, serving to drain the shaft as seepage is evident. On roughly the same line as this shaft there is a second shaft which is now 2m deep with surrounding spoil. To the S of these workings a limestone outcrop has two deep open cast cuts that traverse upsweep for about 47m. Rig and furrow is in parts overlain by earthworks.

M Cressey 1993b.