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Strone Burn

Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Strone Burn

Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 39954

Site Number NR98SE 10

NGR NR 951 834

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NR98SE 10 951 834.

Group of 12 tumuli.

F Newall 1960.

These tumuli are now thought to be shielings. The area was ploughed for forestry in 1974.

Cowal Gazetteer 1967.

Five small oval earth-and-stone huts with three earth-and-stone mounds, one of which is hollowed in the centre and may be a corn-drying kiln.

Visited by OS November 1972.

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