Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674435

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM56SE 1 5608 6194.

(NM 5608 6194) Chambered Cairn (NR) (remains of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)

The remains of this Clyde-type chambered cairn were in a condition generally similar to that described above (RCAHMS) when seen in 1970.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 8 June 1970

A largely destroyed chambered cairn is sited here. These monuments are generally considered to belong to the neolithic period and to date approximately between 3000 and 2000 BC. They are usually taken to indicate the prescence of farming communities in contrast to the nomadic settlements of the mesolithic period. This site is excluded from the SSSI. This has been a desk assessment area.

J Wordsworth, Scottish Natural Heritage, 1993