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Iona, Clachanach
Cropmark (Period Unknown)
Site Name Iona, Clachanach
Classification Cropmark (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 21636
Site Number NM22SE 28
NGR NM 2873 2497
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21636
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM22SE 28 2873 2497
(NM 2873 2497) A linear cropmark with a square northern terminal enclosure is visible on air photographs. (This may have some connection with the "Old Terraced Road and Raised Beach" noted by Crawford). Information from the 15th Annual Report of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, Scotland and Wales, 1968, 12, plan.
Nothing is visible on the ground.
Visited by OS (RD) 9 June 1972
In August 1993 a section was taken across the southern end of the cropmark (see NM22SE 52). This indicated its origin in a system of ditches associated with former stripfield cultivation.
(MS/725/31, GUARD 116; MS/725/39, GUARD 116.2)
Site recorded by AOC (Scotland) Ltd during an archaeological survey of the lands controlled by the National Trust for Scotland on Iona. This survey was conducted in late May and early April of 1996. The full report of this survey has been deposited with both the local SMR and the NMRS.
NM 2872 2496 ?artificial ridge
Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland
T Rees 1996
Excavation (August 1993)
In August 1993 a section was taken across the southern end of the cropmark (see NM22SE 52). This indicated its origin in a system of ditches associated with former stripfield cultivation.
(MS/725/31, GUARD 116; MS/725/39, GUARD 116.2)
Field Visit (April 1996 - May 1996)
Site recorded by AOC (Scotland) Ltd during an archaeological survey of the lands controlled by the National Trust for Scotland on Iona. This survey was conducted in late May and early April of 1996. The full report of this survey has been deposited with both the local SMR and the NMRS.
NM 2872 2496 ?artificial ridge
Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland
T Rees 1996
Field Visit (April 1996 - May 1996)
To the east of the public road and to the immediate north of the Duke of Argyll's Monument is a ridge, 8.0m wide, running for 52.0 m. This ridge has a level, 2.0m broad, top and a drop of 0.75m to the east and up to 0.5m to the west. The ridge may be artificial but its location 5.0m back from the edge of the raised beach may suggest that it is an element of that feature.
Known as Iomaire nan Achd ('the statute ridge') it is purported to be the place where Andrew Knox set up court for the assent by nine Gaelic chiefs to the Statutes of Icolmkill in 1609 AD.
(ION96 016)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
