Archaeology Notes

Event ID 782783

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM34SE 7 centred on 3722 4096

At least sixteen roofless buildings and associated enclosures. Deserted settlement visible on OS air photographs OS/71/337-762. Date of depopulation c. 1851. Name not known.

Visited by OS 15 May 1972

Crucks noted at NM 373 408. [May refer to one or more buildings within this group].

G Stell 1981

Recent fieldwork by the staff of the Strathclyde Joint Archaeology Service (funded by Strathclyde Regional Council and its constituent District Councils) has resulted in the discovery and recording of a number of new sites from the prehistoric period to the early modern era.

NM 3711 4059 Deserted buildings.

NM 3720 4097 Deserted buildings

Strathclyde Regional Council SMR 1995

A township comprising seventeen unroofed buildings, one of which is L-shaped, two enclosures and some field walls is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Mull 1881, sheet lxxxi). Sixteen unroofed buildings, one enclosure and some field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 29 June 1998