Objects
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Pre-Reformation chapels and burial grounds on Coll
There are six pre-Reformation chapels and burial grounds on Coll with extant remains that survived until the first antiquarian visits to Coll. Reeves (1854) collected additional names but did not visit the island:
Kilbride
Crossapol
Caolas
Totamore
Killunaig
GallanachThere are six pre-Reformation chapels and burial grounds on Coll with extant remains that survived until the first antiquarian visits to Coll. Reeves (1854) collected additional names but did not visit the island:
Kilbride
Crossapol
Caolas
Totamore
Killunaig
Gallanach -
Clach Thuill, Crossapol, Coll
‘A holed-stone called ‘Clach Thuill’ at Crossapol (farm at NM 127 530) was a specific for consumption.’
See Barber, J. (1980) ‘The excavation of the holed-stone at Ballymeanoch, Kilmartin, Argyll’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 109, 1977-8, p. 110.‘A holed-stone called ‘Clach Thuill’ at Crossapol (farm at NM 127 530) was a specific for consumption.’
See Barber, J. (1980) ‘The excavation of the holed-stone at Ballymeanoch, Kilmartin, Argyll’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 109, 1977-8, p. 110. -
Geophysical survey hut circles in Fiskary and Crossapol
Coll
Geophysical survey
Darko Maričević – University of Reading
NM 21287 55118 (Fiskary Bay) and NM 13517 53087
(Crossapol) Two hut circles, one possible at Fiskary and one
certain at Crossapol were surveyed, 14–16 August 2010, with
electrical resistance and gradiometry respectively as part of
ongoing research into prehistoric settlement on Coll. Detailed
topographical survey and the results of the resistivity survey
confirmed the artificial nature of the structure at Fiskary and
suggested that the turf walls might have been constructed
around a hollow in the bedrock, which then filled with peat.
Gradiometry results did not provide any significant additional
information.
Archive: University of Reading
Funder: School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University
of Reading
(Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (2010), p. 36
Coll
Geophysical survey
Darko Maričević – University of Reading
NM 21287 55118 (Fiskary Bay) and NM 13517 53087
(Crossapol) Two hut circles, one possible at Fiskary and one
certain at Crossapol were surveyed, 14–16 August 2010, with
electrical resistance and gradiometry respectively as part of
ongoing research into prehistoric settlement on Coll. Detailed
topographical survey and the results of the resistivity survey
confirmed the artificial nature of the structure at Fiskary and
suggested that the turf walls might have been constructed
around a hollow in the bedrock, which then filled with peat.
Gradiometry results did not provide any significant additional
information.
Archive: University of Reading
Funder: School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University
of Reading
(Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (2010), p. 36
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Cairn, Crossapol, Coll
Traigh Chrossapol (Coll parish)
Cairn
NM 1353 5352 Circular cairn, 9m in diameter, of small, well-rounded stones located in the middle of the sand dunes between Traigh Feall and Traigh Chrossapol.
Sponsors: Edinburgh University Archaeology Department,
Holley & Associates
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1996, pp. 15–6Traigh Chrossapol (Coll parish)
Cairn
NM 1353 5352 Circular cairn, 9m in diameter, of small, well-rounded stones located in the middle of the sand dunes between Traigh Feall and Traigh Chrossapol.
Sponsors: Edinburgh University Archaeology Department,
Holley & Associates
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1996, pp. 15–6 -
Crossapol, Coll surface finds
NM 148522 and NM 151525. Two further small sites were found in erosion patches in blown sand about 3½ km to the S on the peninsula E of Crossapol Bay (Bagh a Deas). These yielded
hammer-stones, sherds and flint flakes.
All finds have been deposited in the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1971, p. 5NM 148522 and NM 151525. Two further small sites were found in erosion patches in blown sand about 3½ km to the S on the peninsula E of Crossapol Bay (Bagh a Deas). These yielded
hammer-stones, sherds and flint flakes.
All finds have been deposited in the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1971, p. 5