Glas Eilean, Loch Sunart

NM76SE 3 755 602.

(NM 755 602) Several cup marks may be seen on the W side of the island of Glas Eilean above high water mark. They measure 0.10m in width by 0.08m in depth.

I Thornber 1974.

The situation and dimensions of these 'cup-marks' would suggest that they are bait-holes or bait-mortars, comparable with those on Carna (NM65NW 1, q.v.). There is good evidence that they are of comparatively recent origin.

RCAHMS 1980.

A full programme of field survey is now reaching completion, and upwards of 1500 sites have been recorded. Several miles of field and wood dykes have been surveyed and most can be equated with those shown on Bald's Estate Plan of 1807. Structures recorded include over 300 recessed platforms, roundhouses, dwellings, byres, shielings, pits, boat slips, wharves and bloomeries. The Parliamentary road of c 1807 and its predecessor have been traced and mapped. Research into archival material confirms an intensive pattern of land use through to modern times, and a complex history of woodland management is now emerging. Sites include:

NM 755 602 Bait mortars.

A full list of discoveries is being prepared and will be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsors: Sunart Oakwoods Research Group, Millennium Forest for Scotland Trust.

J E Kirby 2000