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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 778559
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/778559
NR47SW 11 centred 448 730
Cnocbreac: This name applies to the remains of an old hamlet.
Name Book (Argyll), 1878
Cnocbreac comprises two long narrow dwelling houses with associated yards and outbuildings. Some sections of these drystone buildings still stand to gable height. Two corn-drying kilns stand at NR 4482 and NR 4494 7298 respectively. They are in a fair state of preservation and measure 5.0m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height.
Visited by OS (JB), 12 May 1978
This township comprising six unroofed buildings, three of which are long buildings, two enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the OS 1st edition 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1881, sheet clxxxvii).
Four unroofed buildings, one roofed building, three conjoined enclosures, one of which has four compartments, a kiln and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 23 October 1998.
