Report on the Society's Excavations of Forts on the Poltalloch Estate, Argyll, in 1904-5

The Council of the Society having resolved that it was desirable to excavate several Forts in the Crinan district which had been described by me at the April meeting last year, 1 a grant was made from the Fund for Excavations on Native Sites furnished to the Soc ; ety by Mr Abercromby; and leave having been freely given by Colonel E. W. Malcolm, C.B., of Poltalloch, the proprietor of the ground, operations were begun on the 5fch May 1904, and continued uninterruptedly till 28th January 1905.The great distance of the locality precluded superintendence, in our usual manner, by regular visits from Edinburgh, but the knowledge of the sites acquired by me in 1903 made it easy to direct Mr Alexander Mackie, our experienced Clerk of Works, whose weekly reports gave all the information that was required as to the progress of the excavations.Visits were also made in the course of the operations by Lieut.-Col.M'Hardy, C.B., F.P.S.A. Scot.,