RCAHMS

Description RCAHMS

Date 1984

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 1906273

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 15376

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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