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Mull, Coire Ghaibhre

Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Mull, Coire Ghaibhre

Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 22424

Site Number NM63SW 7

NGR NM 640 344

NGR Description Centred on NM 640 344

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Torosay
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM63SW 7 centred on 640 344

At NM 6418 3455 is a simple bowl and tunnel kiln, situated on Forestry Commission land. The associated farm buildings (8 shown, centred NM 640 344 on OS 1:10,000 map, 1975) were left unploughed. The remains of the ancient route through the glen passes through this fermtoun.

R Douglass 1988; Information from NMRS (see Archive MS/534/1)

A township comprising seven unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and another has an outshot, one enclosure and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Mull 1881, sheet lxxxiv). Eight unroofed buildings, one enclosure and a short length of head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 14 July 1998

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