argyll-1971/01-022

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CHAIRMAN'S PREFACE

Argyll is the second largest county in Scotland, and the task of recording the
numerous monuments that it contains will occupy the Commission for many years.
In order to make the results of the survey available as soon as possible it has,
therefore, been decided to prepare the Inventory on a regional basis and to publish
the various parts separately. This volume, the first of the series, deals with the
district of Kintyre, which embraces the southernmost portion of the mainland area
and the islands of Gigha, Cara and Sanda. The principal contents are the Report
of the Commission with the list of monuments selected as especially worthy of
preservation, an Introduction, and an illustrated Inventory of all archaeological
representative examples of later buildings down to the middle of the 19th century.
On this occasion the general section of the Introduction has been limited to a
brief statement of physical and other factors affecting settlement in the region,
since it was felt that the historical and linguistic background would be better
discussed in the final volume of the series, in the wider context of the county as a
whole. On the other hand the lay-put of the Inventory follows the practice adopted
in Peeblesshire, the monuments being grouped according to type and arranged as
far as possible in chronological order. Within each group the monuments are
normally in alphabetical order, but a list of monuments arranged according to civil
parishes will be found on pp. xxxiii ff. Further details concerning presentation are
given in the Editorial Notes on pp. xliii f.

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