Coll, Claid
Midden (Period Unassigned), Borer, Hammerstone(S), Scraper (Tool)(S), Unidentified Pottery
Site Name Coll, Claid
Classification Midden (Period Unassigned), Borer, Hammerstone(S), Scraper (Tool)(S), Unidentified Pottery
Canmore ID 21721
Site Number NM26SW 23
NGR NM 203 603
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21721
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Coll
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM26SW 23 203 603.
S of Gallanach and Arinabost, among the Cliad sandhills (Claid Bay: NM 1960), between the road and the sea, is extensive tract of broken sand, containing many comparatively level spaces. Here, hammer-stones were specially common and occasionally very large; a bone borer, thick at one end and well pointed at the other, a little pottery, including simple patterns of plain or dotted lines, and a few flints, including scrapers, were also found. Only in one spot, close to a small kitchen-midden, was flint at all plentful.
E Beveridge 1903.
The Clain sandhills are centered at NM 203 603. They are mainly turf-covered and Beveridge's site could not be traced. The only items noted were two fragments of boulder walling (of uncertain date and purpose) at NM1994 5999 and a turf-covered sandy mound at NM 2001 5993 showing some stone content and measuring about 8.0m in diameter and 0.7m high.
Visited by OS (I S S) 21 June 1972.