Archaeology Notes

Event ID 696328

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR60NE 12 688 080

(NR 6868 0816) Graves (NAT)

(Centred NR 688 080) Site of Conflict between the Clans Campbell and MacDonald AD 1647 (NAT).

OS 6" map (1924)

The site of the massacre of the MacDonald garrison of Dunaverty Castle (NR60NE 4) after their surrender to the Earl of Argyll and General Leslie in July 1647. A small area where three of the MacDonalds are buried is enclosed by a wall. There are estimated to have been about 300 men in the garrison, at the start of the siege in May 1647.

Name Book 1866; NSA 1845

The walled burial enclosure still survives virtually entire. A plaque set into the wall states that a number of the slain were interred within the enclosure.

Visited by OS (NKB), 27 September 1977.