Field Visit
Date July 1972
Event ID 1174744
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1174744
NM 932 283. There is a small cairn on the north side of the public road through Glen Lonan, 830 metres ESE of Clenamacrie farmhouse. The W side of the cairn has been severely damaged during the extraction of timber, but excavation of the E half by the Commission's officers showed that it was composed of a mixture of earth and stones and had originally measured about 6m in diameter and 0.6m in height*. On the south-east and north, several stones of a rough kerb survive. No signs of a cist or burial deposit were found. Two further mounds to the NE, which measure respectively 4m by 2.5m and 0.2m in height, and 4.4m by 4m and 0.8m, may be similar cairns, but without excavation it is not possible to be certain of this, since there are several mounds of apparently field-gathered stones in the vicinity.
RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1972.
*The Commissioners are indebted to Mrs K McCorquodale, Dunach, for permission to undertake this work.
