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Field Visit
Date April 1967
Event ID 1172909
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1172909
About 750 m SW of Balure farmhouse there is a group of three cairns, situated on a bleak heather-covered moss at a height of about 12 m OD.
(3) NM 897 414. The easternmost cairn, 135 m ESE of (2), measures 12 m in diameter and 0·5 m high above present ground level. A trial excavation, however, carried out in 1963 by members of the Lorn Archaeological Society (DES 1963, 8; MS 64/1), revealed that the visible cairn material represents only a comparatively small proportion of the whole, the remainder being hidden by a layer of peat estimated to be at least 1.5 m thick. The cairn material, consisting of water-worn stones of smallish size, shells, quartz pebbles and soil, was removed to a depth of about 0·8 m below turf-level, but further investigation became impossible because of the waterlogged condition of the site. Probing, however, suggested that the cairn may originally have measured as much as 3 m in height and 18 m in diameter. At the end of the investigation the cairn was restored, as far as possible, to its previous state.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
