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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674473

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM63NW 1 centred on 633 395

A number of ruins E of the River Fossa (c. 24 small unroofed buildings shown on OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 1st ed.,(1881).

Name Book 1881

Partially covered by forestry.

Visited by OS 23 May 1972

At NM 6159 3961 is a fairly well-preserved corn-drying kiln, lying in Forestry Commission ground. Many of the ruined buildings are within the forest, but some are outside and at least one has been split by the fence.

R Douglass 1988; Information from NMRS (see Archive MS/534/1)

A township comprising twenty-three unroofed buildings, five enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Mull 1881, sheet lxxxiv). Thirteen unroofed buildings and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 14 July 1998.

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