Field Visit
Date April 1976
Event ID 1168046
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1168046
NR 390 452. This site, which was identified in 1878 as that of an 'ancient burial ground', (Ordnance Survey Name Book) is situated in a larch-wood 260m ENE of Laphroaig Distillery, and at the foot of the S rock-face, some 8m in height, of Cnoc Luchaig. It comprises an oval enclosure measuring about 24m from SW to NE by 13m transversely within a boundary-wall, now fragmentary, which except at the SE is formed by a single thickness of large boulders. The entrance appears to have been at the E extremity, and to the N of it there is an inner enclosure, 7m in maximum span, formed by a curving wall which abuts the outer wall and incorporates a narrow entrance in the SE sector. There are no identifiable funerary monuments.
Visited April 1976
RCAHMS 1984
