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Archaeology Notes
Date 1973
Event ID 695262
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695262
NR89NW 11 8203 9719.
NR 821 972. A multi-phase settlement was excavated in 1960-2 previous to gravel-digging at the southern end of Brouch an Drummin, an ancient river terrace.
The original settlement was probably Iron Age, represented by the defences, a double ditch 7'deep with a medial bank, which arced across the terrace isolating a level promontory of about 2 acres, to the south. Probably contemporary, was a round house about 35' in diameter, identified by its post-holes, which lay on the east end of enceinte.
A later phase is represented by another round house about 25' in diameter, whose post-holes indicate that it over-lapped the larger structure. It may have been Dark Ages or Early Medieval.
A medieval settlement, with stone foundations, lay to the west, and there are indications that it expanded beyond the original enclosure. When partially silted up, the ditches were lined with low walls and re-used. They appear to have been artificially filled and a probably medieval or post-medieval standing stone (NR89NW 35) surrounded by cobbling overlies them. Other ditches, of unknown purpose, lie to the north.
The excavation was carried out by the Natur Hist and Antiq Soc of Mid-Argyll in association with the Extra-Mural Dept of Glasgow University.
The site is now at least partially destroyed. (See also NR89NW 36, NR89NW 37, NR89NW 38 )
Source: E R Cregeen 1960; 1961; 1962.
NR 8203 9719. This site has been completely destroyed by gravel quarrying.
Site surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (I A) 27 April 1973.
