Field Visit
Date June 1967
Event ID 1174807
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1174807
NM 881 260. This cairn stands to a height of 1.8m above the surrounding field, but it has been enlarged to its present diameter of 31.4m by the dumping of cairn material round the perimeter when the central area was pillaged in the 19th century. Two slabs, which may have been the sides of a cist measuring about 1m in length, 0.6m in width and 0.8m in depth, lie in the centre of the cairn. The cairn had already been excavated by the 1870s and it is recorded that the cist contained a cremation in an 'urn' (Name Book, No. 19, p.78; Smith, Loch Etive, 247), but the vessel no longer exists.
RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1967.
