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Mull, Burg

Field System (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Mull, Burg

Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 21797

Site Number NM34NE 20

NGR NM 3780 4580

NGR Description Centred on NM 3780 4580

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilninian And Kilmore
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM34NE 20 centred on 3780 4580

Burg: The remains of this deserted settlement consist of about thirteen roofless buildings and other enclosures.

Visited by OS 25 April 1972

A township comprising four unroofed, twenty roofed buildings, two enclosures, a sheepfold, a field-system (centred on NM 381 460) and two separate fields is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Mull 1881, sheet lxvii). Fourteen unroofed, three roofed buildings, eight enclosures, a sheepfold and the fragmentary remains of the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 June 1998

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