Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675524

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM94NW 5 c925 473.

Portnacroish (Karn Vain) - ? Clyde group chambered cairn: Though she could not locate it on the ground, Miss Henshall states that Karn-vain, visited by Pococke in 1760, must have been near Portnachroish (NM 925 473), not far from the shore of Loch Laich. Pococke describes an entrance in the cairn's W side, leading to a chamber 2 yds by 1 1/2 yds, and thence to another of similar size. N of this was another, with 3 entrances, and possibly two more, suggesting that the chambers had been built all round and in storeys.

A S Henshall 1972; RCAHMS 1975.

There is no local information on this cairn, and it was not located.

Visited by OS (DWR) 17 November 1971.