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Gleann Sheileach
Building (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn(S) (19th Century), Corn Drying Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned), Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Ditch(S) (Prehistoric), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Hearth(S) (19th Century), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Post Hole(S) (Prehistoric), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Unidentified Pottery(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Gleann Sheileach
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn(S) (19th Century), Corn Drying Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned), Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Ditch(S) (Prehistoric), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Hearth(S) (19th Century), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Post Hole(S) (Prehistoric), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Unidentified Pottery(S) (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 80610
Site Number NM82NE 76
NGR NM 850 284
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/80610
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmore And Kilbride
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Archaeological Evaluation (8 July 2010 - 13 July 2010)
NM 8500 2845 An 8% evaluation undertaken 8–13 July 2010 on phase six of a development recorded a series of prehistoric postholes, ditches/gullies, possible stone walls and buried soils beneath a substantial accumulation of colluvium.
A later, probably 18th-century farmstead/township was also evaluated. This consisted of at least three longhouses (one of largely turf construction), a smaller rectangular structure, at least two lean-to structures (set against natural bedrock ridges), a series of stone and earthen banks forming enclosures and four clearance cairns. One of the cairns was extremely large and may have much earlier origins.
Archive: RCAHMS
Funder: MacLeod Construction Ltd
Clare Ellis – Argyll Archaeology
Archaeological Evaluation (15 August 2011 - 5 November 2011)
NM 8500 2845 An evaluation was undertaken 15 August – 5 November 2011 on phase six of a housing development, following an initial evaluation in 2010 (DES 2010, 45). Topsoil stripping was conducted over a large area in which prehistoric material had been previously recorded. In addition a series of structures belonging to a farmstead were deturfed by hand prior to excavation. The excavation revealed three well preserved roundhouses and the corner of a possible fourth; a cluster of pits filled with midden material and a large quantity of decorated and undecorated Bronze Age pottery; a couple of linear gullies and a few isolated hearths and pits. The farmstead proved to be 19th-century in date with no evidence of earlier phases. It consisted of a house of dry stone construction; a stone barn with two attached stone corn drying kilns; a possible second stone barn; and a turf-built house, store and probable barn complex. Just to the S of the main farmstead complex a further small building was discovered which had been utilised as a metal workshop. Further isolated 19th-century features included metal working hearths, pits and clearance cairns.
Archive: RCAHMS
Funder: MacLeod Construction Ltd
Clare Ellis, Argyll Archaeology
2012
