Monument record MHG17659 - An-t-Sron
Summary
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NN 1263 5622 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NN15NW |
Old County | ARGYLL |
Civil Parish | LISMORE AND APPIN |
Geographical Area | LOCHABER |
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Full Description
This site is located upon a prominent well drained knoll lying at the foot of An-t-Sron at 90m OD. The site is surrounded by bog, and the E and W sides are skirted by streams.
The site comprises a rectangular building situated on the summit of the knoll with a crude sub-circular structure some 11m to its SE. The rectangular building is roughly 7.Om long E-W, by 3.5m overall. The walls are constructed of roughly coursed stone, double faced, and up to 1m wide at their base. It has slightly bowed gables, and an entrance lm wide in the S wall. The interior is partly filled with tumble. particularly adjacent to the gables.
The sub-circular structure has an overall diameter of 4.5m, is built of stone and boulder walls up to 1m wide, and has no obvious entrance. The interior is featureless.
A spring on the NE edge of the knoll is truncated by a single course wall c 7m long laid across the spring head. The basin of the spring has been filled with stones.
P Topping 1994b.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG188 Text/Publication/Article: Topping, P. 1994. 'An-t-Sron (Lismore & Appin parish): shieling', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1994, p.37. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 37. 37.
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Record last edited
May 13 2016 12:00AM