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Note
Date 1975
Event ID 1175144
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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On a number of occasions, particularly in the latter part of the 19th century, prehistoric burials, some of them in cists, have been discovered in Oban. The majority have been found in the northern part of the town, broadly between Breadalbane Street and Corran Park.
(9) NM 848 293. The Cave of the Skulls (Uamh nan Claigionn), which is situated just S of Oban on the Gallanach road, is mentioned in the Statistical Account in 1794 as containing a collection of human bones, traditionally associated with 17th century raiders, and a gold-headed cane and a silver brooch are said to have been found in it (1794, 126-7). In 1870 the Ordnance Survey Name Book recorded that 'a great quantity of human bones were taken from it a few years ago' (No.19, p.60-1). There is clearly nothing to suggest that thee remains were prehistoric.
RCAHMS 1975
