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Field Visit
Date May 1963
Event ID 1111551
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1111551
Cairn (possible), Cnoc Largie, Gigha.
About 400 m SE. of Tarbert farmhouse there is a low stony mound measuring about 18 m in diameter. It is situated at a height of about 45 m O.D. on gently sloping ground near the foot of the SW. slopes of Cnoc Largie, and is heavily overgrown with bracken and rough grass. The maximum height of the mound is 0.5 m, and a number of earthfast boulders are visible round the perimeter; some of these are large blocks, measuring up to 1.2 m in length by 0.5 m in thickness and protruding to a height of 0.4 m above ground. Although these stones have been regarded as belonging to the wall of an enclosure (Anderson 1939, 26), the amount of stone that lies under the turf within the interior suggests that the structure is more likely to be a cairn which, like the cairn at Kildonan Point (NR72NE 11), was originally surrounded by a heavy stone kerb.
RCAHMS 1971, visited May 1963.
ccxxiii (unnoted)
