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RCAHMS
AG 15376
Description RCAHMS
Date 1984
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AG 15376
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1906273, SC 375373
Scope and Content Entrance into chambered cairn, Nether Largie South, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute Though reduced in size, this chambered cairn at northether Largie South remains an impressive example of northeolithic cairn-building which was enlarged during the Bronze Age to cover a series of cist burials. The chamber held the bones of the community's dead, probably deposited over many years. Once the chamber was considered to be full, the doorway (seen here) was sealed with large flat slabs, two of which are in situ, and covered over with cairn material. In 1864 the Rev. William Greenwell conducted an excavation at Nether Largie South as part of a series of excavations in the area. Within the cairn chamber he discovered fragments of burnt and unburnt human bone, flint tools as well as sherds of pottery. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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