Sandbank, Ardnadam Wood
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Sandbank, Ardnadam Wood
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 40776
Site Number NS18SE 7
NGR NS 1588 8049
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Dunoon And Kilmun
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS18SE 7 1588 8049.
At NS 158 805, directly above Sandbank School is a series of turf dykes forming terraces and enclosures, with one definite oval hut 6m x 4m, and another two possible hut foundations.
Cowal Archaeol Soc 1971
The whole hillslope has been extensively drained and many of the dykes are simply material from drainage channels. Many of the minor level terraces may be the result of the general slumping of the hillslope.
NS 1588 8049. A horse-shoe shaped earthen bank 0.3m high, 6.0m wide and 5.5m deep; situated on a level shelf on a NE-facing hillslope in deciduous woodland. Its age and nature are not clear but it is almost certainly not prehistoric and is of doubtful antiquity.
NS 1585 8046. An oval platform 7.5m by 5.5m in a poor state of preservation. Its age and nature are not clear but it is almost certainly not prehistoric.
Miss E Rennie (Netherby, Kirn, Dunoon) was unable to suggest a date and purpose for these features.
Visited by OS (TRG) 17 December 1976
