View from SW

Description View from SW

Date 1984

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

Catalogue Number SC 375299

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 36463

Scope and Content Cairn at 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. Excavations at Nether Largie North revealed within the cairn a central area measuring 14m by 13.4m, defined by a bank of large stones. Craw found no evidence to suggest there had been a kerb surrounding the cairn, a common feature of other cairn sites. During the Bronze Age many older monuments were reused as burial sites, probably because these places were special or even holy to people. The Neolithic cairn at Nether Largie South received Bronze Age burials and is the focus of the linear cemetery. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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