Bute, St Blane's
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bute, St Blane's
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 318532
Site Number NS05SE 5.35
NGR NS 09444 53569
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/318532
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
Field Visit (21 March 2012)
This quarry is situated at the SSE end of the ridge along which the NE side of the more northerly of the two monastic enclosures partly runs. It comprises one largish pit (14m from NW to SE by 6.5m and 3m deep on the NE) and a conglomeration of smaller delvings immediately to the SE, which have effectively removed the end of the ridge and therefore any trace of the boundary wall where it would have descended. The quarries were most likely opened to provide stone for the field wall that ran along the foot of the ridge to the SW.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 21 March 2012.
