Publication Account
Date 1985
Event ID 1018861
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018861
This cairn is now very much reduced in height, but its diameter of about 20m is probably close to its original extent Excavated on two occasions, by Dean Mapleton in 1870 and J H Craw in 1929, three cists were discovered, all without gravegoodsi but all have interesting features about their construction: that to the north of the centre, which was covered by a massive slab and contained a cremation deposit is grooved and rebated at one end to give the end-slab a tighter-fit; both cists to the south of the centre have grooved and rebated slabs. The west end-slab of the southernmost cist has been decorated with seven pecked axe-markings. The narrow vertically placed slab at the east end is a replacement for a further decorated slab, which bore a long pecked groove with short pecked lines at right angles to it; the original stone was sadly destroyed in a fire, but there is a cast in NMAS.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles’, (1985).
