Loch Sunart, Risga
Bait Hole(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Sunart, Risga
Classification Bait Hole(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 22505
Site Number NM66SW 3
NGR NM 6127 6004
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Ardnamurchan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NM66SW 3 6127 6004.
NM 613 601. There are over sixty 'crotagan', in at least ten groups, and some big natural cavities, all along the E coast of Risga, 10ft to 15ft above high water mark. Local fishermen say that this is the isle's best fishing point.
(Morris defines 'crotagan' as situated on a level, smooth area, abraded very smoothly and near hemispherical in shape, about 6ins in diameter and 3ins deep, found near sea level at a good fishing point; he suggests that they were used as bait-mortars.)
L M Mann 1922; R W B Morris 1969.
These marks are in the area centred NM 6127 6004, and are similar to those on Carna (NM65NW 1).
Visited by OS (R L) 1 June 1970.
The origin and function of these bait-holes or bait-mortars have been discussed within recent years, and there is good evidence that they are of comparatively recent origin.
R W B Morris 1969; RCAHMS 1980.
