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Muck, Port Mor
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Rotary Quern (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Muck, Port Mor
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Rotary Quern (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 118014
Site Number NM47NW 15
NGR NM 42082 79383
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/118014
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM47NW 15 42082 79383
(Classified as farmstead and location cited as NM 4210 7940). A farmstead comprising two roofed buildings, one of which has an attached enclosure, one unroofed building and another enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Muck, 1880, sheet lxxii). Three unroofed buildings and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 10 December 1996
(Classification amended to buildings, enclosures and quern and location amended to NM 42082 79383). Two of the three buildings shown roofless on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1975) now have hipped roofs. That shown with an adjoining enclosure is used as a store, while the other, on a narrow terrace above it, has been more extensively modernised to provide domestic accommodation. The latter measures 9.3m from NNW to SSE by 5.4m externally and has a modern extension incorporating a bathroom at its NNW end. Set against the front (ENE), there is the upper stone of a rotary quern measuring 0.47m in diameter and 0.025m in thickness. The quern has a central eye measuring 0.1m in diameter within a raised collar and at regular intervals along the outer edge of the upper surface, there are two small circular depressions and one perforation; these are probably the sockets for handles. The underside of the stone is concave and has shallow concentric grooves.
The third building on the current map lies on the E side of the track leading to Port Mor House, in an area of fenced woodland which is heavily overgrown. The building appears to occupy the site of an enclosure shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, but which is not depicted on the 2nd edition some twenty years later (Argyllshire, Island of Muck, 1880 and 1903, sheet lxxii). The side and rounded end of a fourth building survive on the opposite side of the track a short distance to the SSW, its location roughly corresponding to that of an unroofed building shown on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map. This lies adjacent to a machinery shed, and is also now heavily overgrown.
(Muck02, 399)
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG,DCC) 19 June 2002
