Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679414

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN94NW 1 9089 4605.

(Classified as building and artificial island (possible)). The thick ruined walls of some ancient building on a circular island in Loch Kennard are noticed by both Ferguson and Stuart. The latter lists the island as a crannog. (The island at NN 9089 4605 may be the one concerned).

J Ferguson 1891; J Stuart 1864

(Classification amended to island dwelling). NN 9089 4605: The remains of this building, surviving to a maximum height of 1.7m, measure 6.3m E-W by 3.4m within well-constructed walls 0.7m thick, of unmortared roughly coursed stone. There is a doorway at the E end of the S side and the remains of a splayed window in the W end. It is not possible, without excavation, to ascertain the date or purposed of this building.

The island on which it stands measures 18.0m N-S x 16.0m and may be partially artificial although it is not certainly a crannog. No further information could be found locally.

Revised at 1:10560 scale.

Visited by OS (RD) 18 November 1970