Gruinart Flats

{{Short description|Low-lying landform on the western part of the isle of Islay in Scotland}}

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{{Designation list

| designation1 = Ramsar

| designation1_offname = Gruinart Flats, Islay

| designation1_date = 14 July 1988

| designation1_number = 401{{Cite web|title=Gruinart Flats, Islay|website=Ramsar Sites Information Service|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/401|accessdate=25 April 2018}}}}

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The Gruinart Flats is a low-lying landform on the western part of the isle of Islay in Scotland. The locale is an important conservation area, having been designated as an SSSI. Much of the Gruinart Flats is a marshy area operated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. This vicinity is known to be an early habitation site by Mesolithic peoples.Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology: the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic. 2001. p. 139