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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 695782
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695782
NR57SE 6 5517 7134
(NR 5517 7134) Cladh Mhic Iain (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This name applies to an ancient graveyard close to the shore, about 1/8 mile NW of Rudha na Togsaide. ("Site of" was not applied till 1900.) Burial mounds called Cladh Chlann Vic Ian lie near the sea, not far from Sannaig. A battle is said to have been fought between the Buies and the last of the Jura Macdonalds, a branch of the family called Chlann Vic Ian. The bodies of the slain were buried together where they fell. (However, of NR56SW 1)
Name Book 1878; D Budge 1960.
Cladh Mhic Iain is an ill-defined, roughly sub-rectangular area approximately 10.0m E-W by 5.0m N-S. The perimeter is marked by a rubble wall - with stone clearance possibly added - 1.5m wide and 0.5m high, with a gap in the south side possibly marking an entrance. There is no clear evidence of burials within the uneven interior. Mounds immediately to the south are natural sand hillocks.
Some 38.0m to the SE is a much more clearly-defined small enclosure. It is believed to be the burial place of sailors aand still-born infants (information from A Buie, Knockrome, Jura to OS). It is sub-rectangular and measures 5.0m E-W by 3.2m within a largely earthen wall, 2.0m wide and 0.5m high. A gap in the NE corner may be an entrance. A few insignificant stones lie within the featureless interior.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 23 May 1978.
