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Field Visit
Date April 1967
Event ID 1175065
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1175065
NM 900 420 and 901 421. In March 1954 a cist was discovered during ploughing operations in an arable field to the NE of Balure farmhouse and within 150m of S shore of Loch Creran (The Scotsman, 26 March 1954). A second cist, situated a short distance away in the same field, which had been discovered many years before, was examined at the same time.
(1) The first cist, situated about 150m NNE of the farmhouse, was encountered at a depth of 0.3m when the uppermost of its two massive slabs were struck by the plough. When this slab (1.9m by 1.2m and 0.3m in greatest thickness) was removed it was found to be resting on a second cover-slab (2.0m by 1.5m and 0.4m in thickness). The cist, which was aligned NE and SW, measured 1.52m by 0.9m and 0.75m in depth internally and was formed of four large slabs, the side slabs being about 0.13m thick and the end slabs 0.7m. It had contained an inhumation burial of which only a fragment of one femur remained, lying partly embedded in a thin layer of silt which had accumulated over the gravel floor of the cist. There were no grave-goods. After examination the cist was filled with soil and is no longer visible.
(2) The second cist, situated about 55m NNE of (1), had been severely damaged at the time of its discovery and had lain open ever since. Measuring internally 1.2m by 0.6m and 0.5m in depth, with the longer axis aligned N and S, it lay about 0.4m below ground-level. There is no record of any skeletal remains or grave-goods.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
