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Mull, Suie

Field Boundary(S) (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Mull, Suie

Classification Field Boundary(S) (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Suidhe; Bunessan

Canmore ID 70874

Site Number NM32SE 18

NGR NM 371 219

NGR Description Centred on NM 371 219

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM32SE 18 centred on 371 219

See also NM32SE 7.

NM 371 218 centre. An area around cairn NM32SE 7 and this settlement was surveyed to confirm known details and to plot additional information. The pre-crofting settlement includes houses of drystone and of mortared construction; several structures were of more than one period of use, with evidence of blocked doors and windows and multiple use.

Several houses showed evidence of either a lean-to out-building or of an earlier structure at one gable end. Others had round gables and one had rounded lower courses corbelled out to a square from c1m above foundation level.

Field banks were traced from the cairn and settlement, indicating agricultural divisions. The banks were of stone-and-turf or turf construction, probably indcating multi-period construction. Further research will be required to date these and find out whether they are of prehistoric or more recent date.

A copy of the report has been lodged with British Petroleum, NMRS, the Fife Archaeological Index and the University of St Andrews Libarary.

Sponsors:British Petroleum, The University of St Andrews.

I Gray and E Gilfillan 1991

A township comprising one unroofed building, five roofed buildings, one enclosure and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Islands of Mull, Erraid etc 1881, sheet cxvii). Five unroofed buildings, one enclosure and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 5 August 1998.

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