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Ground Survey
Date August 2007
Event ID 556412
Category Recording
Type Ground Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/556412
NS 0536 6726 General survey of this circular earthwork was undertaken during October 2007. The elevated central area surrounded by a ditch retains some evidence for a low bank along part of its circuit. The monument is surrounded by the remains of a ha ha-like revetted bank, now much collapsed. The latter was partly superseded by a formally constructed wall to the N and NW. Along the S side of the site there is a low masonry platform, a stop on the late 19th-century tramway route that passed immediately adjacent. The early ditch may have been partly re-excavated.
In the centre of the site lies the derelict 'Lone Man's Grave', a 19th-century burial enclosure of the Bannatynes of Kames. This structure was surveyed in detail.
Archive deposited with Bute Museum, RCAHMS, Mount Stuart Archive.
Funder: Discover Bute Landscape Partnership Scheme; partners - HLF; SNH; The Mount Stuart Trust, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Argyll and Bute Council Buteshire Natural History Society; Community Council.
