Clounlaid
Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (18th Century)
Site Name Clounlaid
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (18th Century)
Canmore ID 76335
Site Number NM75SE 5
NGR NM 754 530
NGR Description Centred on NM 754 530
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76335
- Council Highland
- Parish Morvern
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NM75SE 5 centred on 754 530
Clounlaid: Remains of 5 houses, occupied by 1755, probably cleared c. 1840.
P Gaskell 1968
Five unroofed buildings, two enclosures, a field and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet xli). Three unroofed buildings, one enclosure and two lengths of head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 13 May 1998
Ground Survey (2010)
NM 75 53 A walkover survey of one of the field systems
associated with the depopulated township of Clounlaid was
carried out following mounding for forestry. Apart from the
ring-dyke surrounding the field system, the only find was
a large saddle quern that had been damaged by during the
forestry work. As the quern can hardly be described as a
‘portable antiquity’ its presence suggests that the site may be
one of the elusive North Argyll roundhouses, although there
was no other visible evidence to support this proposal.
Funder: Sunart Oakwoods Research
