Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695426

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR65SW 11 6448 5100

(NR 644 509) Remains of a farmstead. It comprises a building footing, 34.0m by 5.0m, and associated field walls and enclosures. Narrow rig cultivation is evident.

Visited by OS, 20 January 1978.

The settlement lies 300m N of Ardailly Farm on the W coast of Gigha. It is surrounded by cultivated fields. The settlement consists of one house with its gables intact and a number of other structures, enclosures and field banks.

F Hood [et al.] 1993, visited April 1993.

NMRS, MS/805/1.

A farmstead, comprising one roofed building, two unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and three enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1873, sheet ccxxii). Three unroofed buildings and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK), 22 October 1998.