Mull, Suie

NM32SE 18 centred on 371 219

See also NM32SE 7.

NM 371 218 centre. An area around cairn NM32SE 7 and this settlement was surveyed to confirm known details and to plot additional information. The pre-crofting settlement includes houses of drystone and of mortared construction; several structures were of more than one period of use, with evidence of blocked doors and windows and multiple use.

Several houses showed evidence of either a lean-to out-building or of an earlier structure at one gable end. Others had round gables and one had rounded lower courses corbelled out to a square from c1m above foundation level.

Field banks were traced from the cairn and settlement, indicating agricultural divisions. The banks were of stone-and-turf or turf construction, probably indcating multi-period construction. Further research will be required to date these and find out whether they are of prehistoric or more recent date.

A copy of the report has been lodged with British Petroleum, NMRS, the Fife Archaeological Index and the University of St Andrews Libarary.

Sponsors:British Petroleum, The University of St Andrews.

I Gray and E Gilfillan 1991

A township comprising one unroofed building, five roofed buildings, one enclosure and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Islands of Mull, Erraid etc 1881, sheet cxvii). Five unroofed buildings, one enclosure and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 5 August 1998.