Archaeology Notes

Event ID 815968

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR34SW 15 centred 3379 4354

Manuscript annotation on RCAHMS working map notes 'fairly well-preserved. Gable-ended buildings of stone + lime + stone + clay'. Lurabus is noted as the largest and best preserved settlement in the area; some buildings have cruck-slots'.

(Undated) information in NMRS

Cruck-slots noted.

G Stell 1981

A township comprising nine unroofed buildings, two of which are long buildings, one partially roofed building, one unroofed circular structure, four enclosures and a system of head-dykes, which are partially shared with the farmstead to the NE (NR34SW 24), is depicted on the OS 1st edition 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1882, sheet ccxxxix). Nine unroofed buildings, three enclosures, a disused kiln in the same location as the unroofed circular structure on the 1st edition, and the head-dykes are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 9 December 1998.