Cheers for the very helpful info, HD... I've gazed across from Sconser and Appin, 'felt the pull' but not been able to go due to company. A forthcoming change in family circumstance may at least enable satiation of archaeological wanderlust. Colonsay is a place I've wanted to go to for a very long time... I've known someone of very great intelligence who went there every year for a very long time, and nowhere else, as the antidote to a high powered pressured life. That fact alone is recommendation enough to make me follow in their footsteps - from what I've read it seems somehow 'other'. That the owners do not permit camping is in a way understandable. (Colonsay, in a way, has come to me, though, as I persuaded my local offy to stock the products of its microbrewery: £, but very, very nice : ) )Have subsequent to my post remembered Gigha, am curious about that one too.