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Islay, Lamh-bheinn

Field System (Prehistoric)(Possible), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Islay, Lamh-bheinn

Classification Field System (Prehistoric)(Possible), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 37760

Site Number NR36SW 22

NGR NR 3027 6408

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilchoman
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR36SW 22 302 640.

Centred on NR 302 640, on a moorland rise are three hut circles (A-C) in association with a small field system. The huts are much reduced and heather-covered; no entrance positions are identifiable with certainty. 'A', set into the slope, is 7.5m internally; the wall remains to any extent only in the north-west half where at most pronounced it is a rubble spread 2.0m broad and 0.6m high.

'B' is 8.5m diameter over tenuous wall remains.

'C' is 5.5m by 5.0m across internally; the wall at best is 0.3m high and spread 1.5m broad. Evidence for a field system is restricted to traces of sinuous, orthostatic walling on the slopes north of hut 'A'.

Between huts A and B an annular, rubble bank, approximately 1.5m wide by 0.4m high, evenly heather-covered on the exterior but raggedly broken otherwise, encloses an area some 5.0 by 4.5m littered with bare stone. Whether this is an enclosure or a quarried mound is speculative. North of hut C is a grassy, fresh-looking heap of stones.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (J M) 24 April 1979.

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Field Visit (June 1980)

NR 302 640. On the flat heather-covered moorland known as Lamh-bheinn there are the remains of at least two hut-circles and several stretches of field-walls. The better-preserved hut (A) measures about 5m in internal diameter within a grass- and heather-covered wall 1.5m thick and 0.3m high; there is no sign of an entrance. Only half of the second hut (B) survives, but this indicates that it measured about 8m in diameter within a wall 2m thick and 0.6m high. An oval foundation (C), situated east of B, and which may have destroyed this side of the hut-circle, measures 5m by 3m internally within a wall 1.5m thick and 0.3m high. The field-walls, situated to the N of hut B and visible merely as boulders protruding through the peat, may also be of early date.

Visited June 1980

RCAHMS 1984

Measured Survey (1980)

RCAHMS surveyed the hut circles and field system at Lamh-bheinn at a scale of 1:1000. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 144A).

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