Archaeology Notes

Event ID 703537

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM73SW 20 71512 39777

NLO: Glas Eileanan [name: NM 715 399]

Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

The projecting skerry and reefs of Glas Eileanan are situated in the centre of the ESE entrance to the Sound of Mull; the main navigation channel passes to the NE. Projecting reefs extend for about 0.5nm from NW to SE, rising from a depth of between 65 and 75m (to the NE). To the SW, a complex of reefs in about 15m depth of water extends from Glas eileanan to the Sgeir nan Gobhar, at the SE end of Scallastle Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 April 2008.

UKHO chart no. 2390 (1976, amended 1991).