Site type ENCLOSURE, HUT CIRCLE (POSSIBLE)
Canmore ID 42423
Site Number NS37SW 10
NGR NS 326 702
Council INVERCLYDE
Parish KILMACOLM
Former Region STRATHCLYDE
Former District INVERCLYDE
Former County RENFREWSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NT37SW 10 326 702.

NS 326 702. A homestead or hut, 23ft in internal diameter, with a heavily-built turf and stone wall 4ft thick in which, to the E, was a 9 1/2 ft wide entrance. It is adjacent to a semicircular enclosure, open at one end.
F Newall 1956; 1964

An area within a radius of 200m around the grid reference given above was perambulated, but no evidence of antiquity could be found. Mr Newall was consulted. He confirmed the siting but stated that, as he discovered the site in 1954, he probably would have difficulty in finding it again. Visited by OS (JTT) 17 November 1964

An obsidian scraper/graver was found 200 yds from this hut.
F Newall and W O Black 1967

Newall and Black, F and W O (1967) 'Side Hills', Discovery Excav Scot
Page(s): 46

Newall, F (1956j) 'Side Hills', Discovery Excav Scot
Page(s): 21

Newall, F (1964a) 'Early open settlement in Renfrewshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.95
Page(s): 164, no.18