View from NNW.
AG 11335
Description View from NNW.
Date 1981
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AG 11335
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 364469
Scope and Content Cairn at Blar Buidhe, Iona, Argyll and Bute This cairn stands behind a bluff at Blar Buidhe. It now looks like a grass-covered mound, but was originally surrounded by a kerb of large boulders. Two of these are still in place, standing to 1 m in height. A further five are lying close by. The cairn can be seen in this image. It was earlier interpreted as a ring-cairn or a collapsed corn-drying kiln. However, it appears to be a kerb-cairn, examples of which are also found on the Isle of Mull. A plan of the cairn was made by Sir Henry Dryden in 1875. This showed a trench running across the cairn, suggesting that it had been excavated at that time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Inv. p29 B
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