Ballimore
Round Ended Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Ballimore
Classification Round Ended Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 193601
Site Number NN02NE 23
NGR NN 05261 26040
NGR Description NN 0526 2604 and NN 0524 2605
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/193601
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Glenorchy And Inishail (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (3 July 1996)
NN02NE 23 0526 2604 and 0524 2605
Two round-ended buildings, each with an attached enclosure, stand 20m apart close to the top of a W-facing slope 250m N of Ballimore farmsteading. That to the N (LORN96 233, NN 0524 2605) measures 16.7m from E to W by 3.6m transversely within a stony bank spread to 1m in thickness; the entrance is in the S side and there are traces of a byre-drain extending down the W half of the interior and out of W end. The attached enclosure, which is oval, lies at the W end. That to the S (LORN96 232, NN 0526 6040) measures 15.1m from ENE to WSW by 3.7m transversely within a stony bank spread to 1.3m in thickness. The entrance is towards the WSW end of the SSE side and its enclosure is attached to the WSW end. These buildings stand at the E edge of an extensive area of rig cultivation described under NN02NE 14.
(LORN96 232-3)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 3 July 1996
