Name: | Poltaloch | CISP No: | POLCH |
Place: | Poltaloch | Grid Ref: | NR 8200 9710 (GB) |
Parish: | Kilmartin | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Argyll , Scotland | Saint(s): | Ciarán |
Site Type: | settlement |
Forsyth/1996, 443--444: `Bruach an Druimein, 500m south-west of the North Lodge, Poltalloch...The complex, multi-period site at Bruach an Druimein was never fully investigated and is still not fully understood ...The nature and status of the site remains to be established. .. Evidence for high level craft-production on site is provided by a crucible and a fragment of decorated slate, possibly a trial piece. The whetstones may be paralleled at nearby Dunadd and Loch Glashan crannog, the iron knife blades at Dunadd. Contact with Ireland is indicated by a fragment of a fine glass from the eighth or ninth centuries ... not to mention the ogham inscription. The imported pottery, which may have arrived via Dunadd, implies elevated social status. Clearly this was more than just an 'ordinary settlement'.