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Muck, Port Mor
Craft Shop (Modern), Tea Room (Period Unassigned), Rotary Quern (Period Unassigned), Saddle Quern(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Muck, Port Mor
Classification Craft Shop (Modern), Tea Room (Period Unassigned), Rotary Quern (Period Unassigned), Saddle Quern(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 292247
Site Number NM47NW 105
NGR NM 42236 79523
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/292247
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM47NW 105 42236 79523
The upper and lower stones of a rotary quern are on display in the toilet of the tea room and craft shop, together with fragments of two saddle querns. The larger of these fragments was recovered from (see NM48SW 12), but the locations of the others, though from the island, were not recorded.
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 10 January 2008
NM47NW 105 42236 79523
This building has been recently renovated and extended and may incorporate elements of a building shown roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Muck, 1880 sheet lxxii).
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 18 May 2002
