Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675808

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM82SW 8 8039 2029.

(NM 8039 2029) Crannog (NR) (Site of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

There is an artificial island in the south half of Loch Seil. It is almost totally submerged at the present time, but is said to measure about 7.3 by 5.5 metres and to be built of stones, with a boat-slip on west side and a 'square place' on the east as if for a landing place (Macadam 1896). No trace is visible of a causeway linking the crannog with the shore.

W I Macadam 1896; RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1971.

A normally submerged island, occasionally visible when Loch Seil is used as a domestic water supply. Mr Page (North Area Engineer, Argyll County Council, Albany Street, Oban), who saw the island recently, believes it to be artificial because the Loch has a peat bottom.

Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.

Visited by OS (R D) 18 November 1969.