Publication drawing, section of cist; chambered cairn, Nether Largie South. Photographic copy.
SC 414498
Description Publication drawing, section of cist; chambered cairn, Nether Largie South. Photographic copy.
Date c. 1981
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 414498
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 13045 P
Scope and Content Chambered cairn at Nether Largie South, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute Now rather denuded, Nether Largie South remains an impressive example of Neolithic cairn-building, with Bronze Age alterations. The cairn covers a rectangular burial chamber, aligned north-east to south-west, sub-divided into four smaller compartments. Built partly of upright boulders and partly of drystone walling, the chamber is divided by stone slabs into four compartments, which housed the bones of the dead. Cairn-architecture like this belongs to a type known as 'Clyde Cairns'. In his excavations of 1864, the Rev. W Greenwell found burnt and unburnt human bone, flint tools, as well as sherds of pottery in the cairn. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1:50
External Reference Inv. No. 19
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