Barr Mor

NR 85000 97500 (centred on) The fieldwork organised by Kilmartin House Museum as part of the Dalriada Project involved members of the local community participating in a walkover survey. Kilmartin Village and Kilbride Farm lie less than 0.5km from the edges of the survey area, respectively at the E and W. The E side of the survey area bounded that of a survey completed last year (DES 2008, 43–4). The survey undertaken in January–February 2009 recorded 80 sites, many previously unknown, including rock art sites and several enclosures with associated structures. The survey substantially increased our knowledge of past land use in the Kilmartin area.

The survey also recorded areas of improved ground, clearance cairns, peat hags, twinning pens, tracks, bridges, fords and quarries. The location of all 80 sites is provided in the gazetteer submitted to the RCAHMS.

Archive: Kilmartin House Museum (intended). Report: WoSAS SMR

and RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Dalriada Project

R Regan 2009

Dalriada Project - Kilbride Walkover Survey II - Structures

The majority of the settlement-related structures at NR 84628 97564 (Cnoc an h-Eilde), NR 85392 97750 (Achayerran) and NR 85539 98141 (Carnaim) had previously been recorded (James 2003). These are all part of

and related to series of enclosures systems tracks and fields. The name of the settlement at Cnoc na h-Eilde remains elusive, although it is likely that the settlement at NR 85539 98141 NW of Achayerran is that of Carnaim. Possibly part of the settlement of Achayerran were structures at NR 85205 97956 and NR 85208 97964, while the structures at NR 85626 98287 may have been part of the settlement at Carnaim. To the NE of Carnaim, and linked by enclosures that run between the two sites, were structures at NR 86133 98562 and NR 86101 98667, the former built within a possible earlier enclosure. These structures may represent a separate settlement, or farm, whose name is unknown. The bulk of the rest of the recorded structures were in rougher and higher ground to the N and W of the survey area and many of these appear to be unenclosed. Whether these represent other permanent settlement activity or are seasonal shielings is open to question, but their position on the higher ground possibly points to the latter. The structure at NR 85876 98774 may be associated with peat extraction, given its proximity to a track leading to a large area of peat hags at NR 85841

98821. As with last year’s survey one structure at NR 85319 98587 appeared to be ‘concealed’ in a small gully next to a burn and may have been the site of an illicit still.

R Regan 2009

NR 85621 98439 (centred on) A desk-based assessment and walkover survey were undertaken, April 2017, in advance of woodland planting at Acha-Bheinn. Forty-one individual structures or features, many of them known sites, were recorded. The sites comprised: two cup-marked boulders; two burial cairns and one mound; a number of isolated stone structures; two settlements; numerous banks/walls/ dykes and enclosures; and two isolated twinning pens. It was recommended that all the identified sites (with the exception of those sites consisting of either peat cutting or cultivation rig – Sites 7, 8, 17, 27, 28, 29, and 30) should be preserved in situ and protected by a buffer zone.

NR 85771 99239 – Twinning pen

NR 85619 99025 – Structure

NR 85395 98843 – Twinning pen

NR 85212 97983 – Enclosure

NR 85246 97536 – Dyke

NR 85344 97691 – Enclosure

NR 85493 97838 – Settlement

NR 85475 97732 – Cup mark

NR 85538 97816 – Cup mark

NR 85695 98002 – Peat cutting

NR 85500 98100 – Township

NR 85439 98201 – Stones

NR 85616 98274 – Structure

NR 85626 98287 – Structure

NR 85734 98322 – Chambered cairn

NR 86101 98667 – Structures

NR 86101 98667 – Structure

NR 86000 98722 – Enclosure

NR 85876 98774 – Structure

NR 85410 98821 – Peat cutting

NR 85997 98788 – Rig

NR 86117 98753 – Rig

NR 86143 98861 – Peat cutting

NR 86093 98942 – Clearance cairn

NR 86115 98949 – Enclosure system

NR 86199 98987 – Rig

NR 86177 99104 – Structure

NR 85696 98293 – Bank

NR 85467 98298 – Stone wall

NR 8537 9869 – Structure

NR 85379 98641 – Wall

NR 85192 97652 – Mound

NR 85236 97801 – Wall

NR 85661 98367 – Bank

Funder: Scottish Woodlands Ltd

Clare Ellis - Argyll Archaeology

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

NR 85403 98742 – Structure

NR 85365 98650 – Structure

NR 85319 98587 – Structure

NR 85308 98435 – Dyke

NR 85022 98055 – Peat cutting

NR 85149 67908 – Burial cairn

NR 85192 97971 – Structure

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.