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Latitude: 56.0577 / 56°3'27"N
Longitude: -5.5626 / 5°33'45"W
OS Eastings: 178287
OS Northings: 690702
OS Grid: NR782907
Mapcode National: GBR DDNP.SZL
Mapcode Global: WH0J8.J0DG
Entry Name: Loch Coille-Bharr, enclosure 220m NW of, Knapdale
Scheduled Date: 12 December 2001
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM10336
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: North Knapdale
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises an enclosure sited just off the E side of the B8025 road, 220m NW of Loch Coille-Bharr, in Knapdale.
The enclosure is an irregular oval in shape, measuring 20m by 12m, and is defined by a curving line of earthfast boulders on its eastern side, and by a marked break in slope on the western side. At the N and S ends of the line of earthfast stones, there are two much larger standing stones.
The enclosure was at one point thought to represent the remains of a stone circle, but is now considered more likely to be domestic in nature, possibly similar to the platform settlements (small terraces cut in hill slopes, on which timber round houses would have been placed) found elsewhere in Scotland.
The area to be scheduled is a circle 33m in diameter, to include the enclosure and an area around it in which evidence relating to its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as the remains of a prehistoric enclosure which has the potential to provide important information about domestic architecture, contemporary economy and land-use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NR 79 SE 19.
References:
Campbell, M. and Sandeman, M. (1964) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 95, 24, No. 161.
Christison, D. (1904) 'The forts of Kilmartin, Kilmichael Glassery, and North Knapdale, Argyll', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 38, 140-1 fig. 17.
RCAHMS (1988) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 6: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, prehistoric and early historic monuments, Edinburgh, 200, No. 339 Plan, 200 (A).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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