Decorated Slab RCAHMS
SC 375282
Description Decorated Slab RCAHMS
Catalogue Number SC 375282
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 22994
Scope and Content Slab from Nether Largie North, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute Nether Largie North forms part of a striking 'linear cairn cemetery' of four cairns (Nether Largie South, Mid and North and Kilmartin Glebe). Its impressive form is due to reconstruction after J H Craw's 1930 excavations which wholly dismantled the site. Craw found a massive cist, aligned N-S, immediately N of the centre of the cairn. Little survived within the cist though two slabs forming the cist bore decoration. Carved on this slab, which forms the N end of the cist, are two large flat axes. Carved flat axes are also known at the nearby cairn at Ri Cruin and mirror axes in the Migdale hoard in Sutherland (dated to c.2000 BC). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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