Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675704

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM92NW 12 9320 2831.

On the north side of the public road through Glen Lonan about 830 metres ESE of Clenamacrie farmhouse (Glenamachrie on OS 1:10,000 map, 1975) there is a small cairn. The west side has been severely damaged during operations for the extraction of timber but excavation of the east side showed that the cairn was composed of a mixture of earth and stones and had originally measured about 6 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres in height. On the south-east and north, several stones of a rough kerb survive. No signs of a cist or burial deposit were found.

To the NE are two further mounds, but these have not been excavated. They measure 4 by 2.5 metres and 0.2 metres in height, and 4.4 by 4 metres and 0.8 metres in height respectively. They may simply be stone clearance mounds, as there are several of such in the vicinity.

RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1972.

The three cairns mentioned occur in a straight line in an area of rig-and-furrow. They, like others in the vicinity would appear to be clearance heaps.

Visited by OS (J P) 10 October 1969.