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Gartur
Crannog (Prehistoric)
Site Name Gartur
Classification Crannog (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 44621
Site Number NS59NE 5
NGR NS 57100 98749
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44621
- Council Stirling
- Parish Port Of Menteith
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NS59NE 5 5710 9875.
(NS 5710 9875) Mound (NAT)
OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
A small mound of earth, apparently artificial, in the midst of the marsh known as Black Loch. It is built round with stones and has on it a few plum trees. It is not a sepulchral mound.
Name Book 1862
The feature shown on the OS 25" map as a mound was originally an island in the Black Loch which has now been drained. It is composed of large stones and earth, and measures 18.0m in overall diameter, by 1.0 metres high. This feature may have been a crannog, but no trace of a causeway could be found.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 19 March 1965.
No change.
Visited by OS (W D J) 15 October 1968.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Gartur NS 571 987 NS59NE 5
This stone-built crannog, which is situated in an area of drained marshland, measures about 18m in diameter and 1m high.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
Name Book, Perthshire, no. 69, p. 55
