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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 657161
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657161
NM55SW 17 54782 54781
The following sites were surveyed in 2002 (boathouses) and 2003 (fish traps) as part of a wider project to study the maritime landscape of the Sound of Mull.
(NM 547 548) Boathouse built of snecked rubble, incorporating broken pieces of roofing slate. The walls are substantially intact, though unroofed. The entrance has a high round arch of slabbed voussoirs, and there is a blocked window or entrance in the upper part of the rear gable wall.
Standing at the head of a creek, the boathouse is sheltered by a large rocky outcrop. On the landward side of the creek are the remains of a simple quay constructed of boulders, allowing dry-shod landing at most states of tide. A track at its seaward end, marked on old maps but now seriously overgrown, led from the boathouse and its associated landing places up to Drimnin House.
Close to the boathouse is a cottage, which has low walls with rounded corners and two windows. Four cruck slots survive, and a central wall incorporating a fireplace appears to be a later addition. A doorway on the W side has been blocked. Outside is a small walled enclosure, apparently never roofed. Within the rubble fill of its walls, objects were found of probable late 19th-century date.
Report lodged with Highland SMR.
Sponsor: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
P Martin and C Martin 2003
