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Torran Hoard

Site/Artefact Torran Hoard Type Bronze weapons/tools Site Number National Grid Reference 1874 East 7045 North Map ( 1:25000) Ordnance Survey Explorer No 358 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Some of the hoard of bronze goods found at one site on two separate occasions [replica]

Excavation Details
Not Available

Description
In 1885, a boy was digging out a ferret under a rocky scarp known as Creagh Beathach when he found two spearheads and a socketed gouge.

Many years later, in 1962, when Marion Campbell and Mary Sandeman were making an inventory of the archaeological sites in Mid Argyll, they were led to the same spot by the late Alistair Carmichael, who remembered being shown the spot as a boy by the original finder, who had then been an old man. There they found three axeheads, two rings and a knife.

Access/Ownership
The hoard is now kept at the National Museum of Scotland.

There is a replica at Kilmartin House

References

• RCAHMS Argyll 6, 19
• Butter, 72
• PSAS 18 (1883-4) 179, 207-9
• PSAS 19 (1884) 53
• PSAS 93 (1959-60) 76, 87, 105
• PSAS 96 (1962-3) 352-4
• Campbell and Sandeman, 122, no. 66

Check out the following sections of the website for related information

• Kilmartin's changing landscape
• Prehistoric Mayo
• Kvalnes burial mound

Mid-Argyll Sites and Artefacts

1. Kilmory Oib  2. Druim an Dúin  3. Duntroon  4. Dún Ardifur 1  5. Eilean Rígh 1  6. Dún Chonaillach  7. Loch Awe Crannogs  8. Torran Hoard  9. Dún na Nighinne 10. Kilmartin Parish Church 11. Temple Wood Stone Circles 12. Ogham stone, Poltalloch 13. Barnakil Cross 14. Kilbride Chapel 15. Kilbride Crosses 16. Dunadd Fort 17. In Nomine disk 18. Brooch Moulds 19. Dunadd cross-marked quern 20. Loch Glashan Crannog 21. Glebe Cairn

22. Nether Largie North 23. Nether Largie Mid 24. Nether Largie South 25. Ri Cruin 26. Nether Largie 27. Ballymeanoch - Stones 28. Ballymeanoch - Henge 29. Ballymeanoch - Cairn 30. Dunchragaig 31. Baluachraig 32. Carnassarie Castle 33. BallymeanocH - Barrow 34. Dun Mac Samhainn 35. Glenmoine, Upper Largie 36. Creag a' Mhadaidh 37. Carnassarie - Round Cairn 38. Carnasserie - Standing Stones 39. Carnasserie - Cist 40. Carnasserie Cottage 41. Upper Largie - Cist 42. Upper Largie - Rock Carvings

43. Nether Largie 44. Poltalloch - Cist 45. Poltalloch - cists 46. Bruach an Druimein 47. Dunchraigaig - Dun 48. Poltalloch - Round Cairn 49. Rownfield - Cist 50. Ballymeanoch - Cist 51. Poltalloch - Cists 52. Ballymeanoch - Dun 53. Dunadd - Standing Stones 54. Dunadd - Standing Stone 55. Baile Mor - Dun 56. Anaskeog - Rock Carvings 57. Bariole 58. Rhudil - Round Cairn 1 59. Rhudil - Round Cairn 2 60. Kilmartin Castle 61. Slockavullin 62. Rowanfield - Standing Stone 63. Poltalloch - Cremation

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