Site Name: Cnoc nan Gall, Colonsay
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Viking Burial (possible)
Council: Argyll and Bute
Parish: Colonsay and Oronsay
Map Sheet: NR39SE
Grid Reference: 135800, 693200
Canmore Number: 37922
Non-Statutory Register Code: N
WoSASPIN 2516
NR39SE 46 c.358 932.
In 1902 a number of iron clench-nails, a human tooth and a horse tooth were found in the sand-dunes at Cnoc nan Gall; the assemblage has been described as the remains of a Viking burial, but the circumstances of its discovery make it impossible to be certain. The objects are preserved in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.
RCAHMS 1984, visited June 1978; The Glasgow Herald, 7 August 1936; S Grieg 1940; J N G Ritchie 1982
The name Cnoc nan Gall applies to an area of machair formerly used as a golf course. There is no local knowledge of this discovery, but see NR39SE 26 and 47 for other burials in this area.
Visited by OS 20 April 1974.
Ritchie, J N G , 'Excavations at Machrins, Colonsay', PSAS, Vol 111, 1981, pp.263-81.(1982)
RCAHMS , The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments Vol 5: Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay. Edinburgh.(1984)
Grieg, S , Viking antiquities in Scotland. Oslo.(1940)