SRP Archaeology Notes
Date 29 July 2009
Event ID 575643
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Srp Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575643
The western part of this settlement comprises eleven buildings extending NW /SE in linear formation for some 150m on a natural terrace above the North Sannox Burn. The settlement is situated at a height of approximately 40m above sea level on a south facing site below the rocky improved pasture of Torr Reamhar.
Six buildings are constructed of large rubble masonry with a wall thickness of up to 0.8m and standing up to 2.2m in height. These buildings are variously subdivided and extended and may have been occupied as byre dwellings. There are also five less well preserved buildings, some surviving as platforms only, and several enclosures which are defined by boulders and dry stone walling of smaller stones.
A corn drying kiln is situated at NR 003 468, some 200m to the east, on an eminence on the west bank of Allt na h-Ath. Rig and furrow extends across the improved pasture to the north and east of the settlement and there are lazy beds to the south.
Information from Scotland's Rural Past Arran Training Camp, March 2008.
