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Field Visit
Date May 1983
Event ID 1101928
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1101928
This cist is set into the W side of a natural gravel knoll opposite the Ford Hotel; aligned N and S, it measures 0.85m by 0.65m internally. Both end-slabs and the E side-slab remain in position, but the W side-slab has been removed. The cover slab measures 2.3m by 1.1m and 0.1m in thickness, and still protects the N half of the cist. (Campbell and Sandeman noted that there was a slab 'lying broken above the cover', but there was no sign of it on the date of visit) (Campbell and Sandeman 1964). A Food Vessel, now in the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 'found in a cist in the neighbourhood of the lower end of Loch Awe', may have been found in it; however, apart from the notice of the donation of the vessel to the museum in 1886, (PSAS 1886), there are no further details.
Visited May 1983
RCAHMS 1988
