Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694688

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR34NE 4 3780 4625.

(NR 3780 4625) Burial Ground (NR)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

"A small and nearly circular patch of green rough pasture situated on the summit of a small knoll" which is named Cnoc na Cille, "Knoll of the Church". It is said to be an ancient place of interment, but its period of use is not known.

Name Book 1878.

A Torradale farm (NR 380 461) close to the road on the right hand side are the ruins of a very small and ancient building, probably a chapel. Some of the stone blocks used in its construction are of great size.

R C Graham 1895.

A roughly oval mound lies on the north end of a natural outcrop.

F Celoria 1959.