Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694976

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR46NW 22 centred on 4199 6710

Corn kiln, 6ft internally with walls 6' wide and 6' high. Possible fire slab in SE quadrant.

Shanks 1971

Abandoned 18th/19th century township of at least eight longhouses, the largest 29m by 4m, and several subsidiary buildings, enclosures and two corn-drying kilns.

Visited by OS (NKB) 19 April 1979

Manuscript annotation on RCAHMS working map indicates 'late township group... not attracting special comment'.

(Undated) information in NMRS

A township comprising seven unroofed buildings, two of which are long buildings, four enclosures and three kilns, each annotated as Old Limekiln, is depicted on the OS 1st edition 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1867, sheet cxcviii). Nine unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and another is L-shaped, and three enclosures, one of which is incomplete, are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 2 November 1998