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Bute, Cat Craig

Bloomery Mound (Post Medieval), Pen (19th Century)

Site Name Bute, Cat Craig

Classification Bloomery Mound (Post Medieval), Pen (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Corval 2

Canmore ID 124797

Site Number NR97SE 38

NGR NR 99556 72531

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish North Bute
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Buteshire

Archaeology Notes

NR97SE 38 99556 72531

Corval 1: mound, enclosure, Corval 2: hut circle.

Sponsor: Buteshire Natural History Society

A C Hannah and E V W Proudfoot 1995

NR 995 725 Mound: Located 100m SE of wooden sheepfold between Barlia and Corval Hill. Rather amorphous sub-circular mound just inside the stone and turf dyke that encloses a sub-circular area of former arable land E of site. This is possibly a large clearance cairn. There is also a small stone structure against rock face 100m ENE of mound (lambing pen, probably 19th century).

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

(RCAHMS WP000273)

Activities

Field Visit (1991 - 1999)

Corval 1: mound, enclosure, Corval 2: hut circle.

Sponsor: Buteshire Natural History Society

A C Hannah and E V W Proudfoot 1995

NR 995 725 Mound: Located 100m SE of wooden sheepfold between Barlia and Corval Hill. Rather amorphous sub-circular mound just inside the stone and turf dyke that encloses a sub-circular area of former arable land E of site. This is possibly a large clearance cairn. There is also a small stone structure against rock face 100m ENE of mound (lambing pen, probably 19th century).

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

(RCAHMS WP000273)

Aerial Photography (6 February 2009)

Field Visit (16 June 2009)

NR97SE 38 99556 72531

This bloomery mound is situated in rough ground at the edge of a formerly cultivated field, some 110m SE of a modern sheepfold and 45m NE of a burnt mound (NR97SE 77). It measures about 6m in diameter by 0.5m in height and the removal of a turf from its top revealed a core containing slag. The small pen referred in the previous account is situated 60m to the NE at NR 99598 72573.

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, GB, DM) 16 June 2009.

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