Island Columbkill
Crannog (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Island Columbkill
Classification Crannog (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Arkaig; Eilean Loch Arceig
Canmore ID 23737
Site Number NN18NE 7
NGR NN 1599 8885
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN18NE 7 1599 8885.
Island Columbkill has evidently been adapted for habitation. The west end is solid rock, but the south side appears to have been artificially enlarged, with a well preserved zigzag causeway to the shore. There are large masses of vitrified material on the island, one piece being in situ, and two circular vitrifed constructions may have been smelting furnaces. (See also NN18NE 1- Chapel and Burial Ground)
O Blundell 1913.
The greater part of the island is artificial, composed of rubble stones and, where there is no vegetation, masses of vitrified material can be seen around the whole perimeter suggesting, in the absence of any evidence of a wall, a partially vitrified crannog rather than a fort. The "two circular vitrified constructions mentioned by Blundell could not be traced.
Visited by OS 11 May 1970.
