Iona, Baile Mor
No Class (Event)
Site Name Iona, Baile Mor
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 109499
Site Number NM22SE 60
NGR NM 28520 24045
NGR Description From NM 28520 24045 to NM 28634 24527
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/109499
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM22SE 60 From NM 28520 24045 to NM 28634 24527
NM 284 240 In February 1996 SUAT carried out a watching brief to monitor a British Telecom cable duct trench which ran from the telephone exchange in Baile Mor past the Augustine nunnery and crossed Straid nam Marbh - the Street of the Dead.
A deposit of white grey sand with abundant shell and animal bone at c 0.8m below the road surface was recorded outside the telephone exchange. The shell and animal bone may relate to the nunnery although they could also be much earlier in date. It is possible that this deposit represents a continuation of the one recorded by Smith in the 19th century.
Remains of mortared stonework surrounded by a deposit of brown silty clay and mortar fragments to the base of the trench were encountered opposite the nunnery. The stonework may indicate that the nunnery buildings at one time extended further to the S. Where the trench crossed the Street of the Dead, a make-up of beach shingle and pea gravel formed the road surface, a much simpler construction of road than the section that runs through the Abbey grounds.
Sponsor: British Telecommunications plc.
R Cachart (SUAT) 1996
Watching Brief (February 1996)
NM 284 240 In February 1996 SUAT carried out a watching brief to monitor a British Telecom cable duct trench which ran from the telephone exchange in Baile Mor past the Augustine nunnery and crossed Straid nam Marbh - the Street of the Dead.
A deposit of white grey sand with abundant shell and animal bone at c 0.8m below the road surface was recorded outside the telephone exchange. The shell and animal bone may relate to the nunnery although they could also be much earlier in date. It is possible that this deposit represents a continuation of the one recorded by Smith in the 19th century.
Remains of mortared stonework surrounded by a deposit of brown silty clay and mortar fragments to the base of the trench were encountered opposite the nunnery. The stonework may indicate that the nunnery buildings at one time extended further to the S. Where the trench crossed the Street of the Dead, a make-up of beach shingle and pea gravel formed the road surface, a much simpler construction of road than the section that runs through the Abbey grounds.
Sponsor: British Telecommunications plc.
R Cachart (SUAT) 1996