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Archaeology Notes

Date  - 1976

Event ID 699642

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/699642

NS07NW 2 0210 7645.

(NS 0210 7644) Chapel (NR) (Ruins)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

The remains of a small building known to have been a church (sic). A small level area to the N and E was the associated burial ground. Although looked upon as an antiquity, there is no tradition regarding it.

Name Book 1863.

Listed an an "ancient Catholic Chapel".

Argyll County Council 1914.

The walls of this chapel, though tumbled, are quite obvious. There is a well near the chapel (NS07NW 3) and also surrounding garth walls.

M Paterson 1970.

The remains of a sub-rectangular building (probably the chapel) measuring 5.2m NE-SW by 3.5m with rounded corners on the W and S sides. The walls are about 1m in height and thickness with an entrance 0.8m wide on the SE side. The building is enclosed by a turf-covered earth-and-stone bank 1.5m high with an entrance in the W.

Visited by OS (I A) 24 November 1972.

NS 0210 7644. The remains of a probable chapel as described in the field report of 24 11 72. The enclosing wall measures 15.0m N-S by 10.0m

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (B S) 14 October 1976.

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