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Loch Lomond, Inchtavannach
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Carved Stone(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Lomond, Inchtavannach
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Carved Stone(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 129720
Site Number NS39SE 125
NGR NS 3645 9072
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/129720
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Luss
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS39SE 125 3645 9072
Occupied house. Two phases, the back, (N), of the house, which is the oldest part, used to act as both byre and dairy earlier this century. The barn,(which now acts as a byre), is also of this phase and dates to c.1734, (Roy Rogers, pers. comm.).
The front, (S), of the house which is an estate house, has sandstone mouldings at the quoins, doors and windows which are exactly the same as those on the house on Inchlonaig.
The house is built on a prepared platform and revetting of the bedrock is visible at the N side of the kennels. Rig and furrow is clearly visible in the front garden running N to S and following the natural drainage of the slope. There is a standing stone concreted into its socket in the front garden. This is thought to be a Victorian folly and a hole from which it was probably excavated on its S side is an ornamental pond.
A rectangular platform to E of house with circular haystack stance (cleared by the present tenants, previously it was entirely covered by a midden) was constructed before the barn was built.
The barn was built in c.1734 re to using stone from the house that formerly stood on the S shore to the E of the present house. This building was destroyed to provide building stone for the first phase build of the present house. A decorated carved stone re-used as the lintel stone of a ventilation slit in the E wall of the byre / barn. The stone is very weathered and probably also plough damaged but it is possible to distinguish a central band of chevron with incised design and two border bands with incised decoration running along either edge of the central chevron band. The stone, which is not complete, measures 0.52m by 0.32m by 0.16m.
Apart from the above stone and a fragment of grave slab inscribed Mitchell (a sandstone slab measuring 0.63m by 0.47m by 0.09m), there are also a number of quern stone fragments and a fine red sandstone lintel stored in the back yard. There is also 19th and early 20th century agricultural equipment preserved on the island.
FIRAT 1995; NMRS MS 993/2
Sites recorded during The Loch Lomond Islands survey, a three-phase archaeological assessment of the islands and crannogs in Loch Lomond.
NS 3645 9072 Decorated stone
NS 364 907 Grave slab fragment
NS 364 907 Byre, dairy and barn; platform
Sponsor: Friends of Loch Lomond
F Baker 1995
