Archaeology Notes

Event ID 869779

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS06SW 25 04811 60438.

Recorded during survey of deserted settlements; records are held in the Bute Museum.

Sponsor: Bute Antiq Natur Hist Soc; St Andrews Heritage Services.

Hannah and Proudfoot 1994.

NS 048 604 Site 93 Woodbutt

This butt of Meikle Kilmory was first noted by Roy (c1750), although accidentally transposed with Tighlennan (site 100). A well defined yard and roadway survive, but no trace of the house as shown on May and OS1.

Proudfoot and Hannah 2000

NS 048 604 Settlement remains: Located 100m above the road, on S bank of small burn, just N of march dyke, 0.7km SSW of Meikle Kilmory. Wall enclosure with platforms (yard) and well-defined roadway running S under march dyke. No visible remains of house shown on 1780/81 map. A butt of Meikle Kilmory; first recorded by Roy.

Information from Bute Natural History Society Deserted Settlement Survey (1991-9)

(RCAHMS WP000273)

All that is now visible of this farmstead, which stood in what is now an area of rough ground 120m E of Little Kilmory Cottage, is a gorse-grown enclosure on a terrace. A single building and an enclosure are depicted here on an 18th-century estate map (Foulis 1758-9); a later estate map (May 1780-82) shows two buildings and an enclosure.

Visited by RCAHMS (JMH) 7 May 2009.