Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676000

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN00SE 12 0582 0496.

NN 058 050. Chambered Cairn, Barmore Wood: This Clyde-type long cairn is at c. 150' OD, on an elongated natural mound covered by thin woodland. The cairn has been almost entirely removed, though an edge can be traced along the SE side at the NE end, about 17' from the NE chamber. There are the remains of two chambers set along the same axis, 63' apart, originally entered from each end of the cairn, implying that it was about 94' long. Cairn material remains 2' of 3' deep around the chambers. The foundations of a small building lie immediately outside the NE chamber, with one wall built across the entrance to that chamber. There is no sign of any facade at either end of the cairn. The SW chamber was excavated in 1963; it was found to be greatly ruined and had previously been dug out. A septal slab divides the chamber, but has been partly smashed. The NE chamber, at least 16' long, is built with two pairs of massive side slabs. Excavation found the stump of the back-slab. The chamber is divided into two compartments by a massive septal slab, the inner compartment measuring 6' by 4'. Artifacts found included pottery sherds, a flint flake, and part of a flint knife.

A S Henshall 1972; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; J G Scott 1963; 1964; 1965; 1974.

NN 0582 0498: Generally as described.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (D W R) 15 March 1973.

Site was examined prior to the refurbishment and upgrading of the Scottish Hydro-Electric Port Ann to Lochgair power line.

NN 0582 0496 Chambered tomb in Barmore Wood (NMRS NN00SE 12).

Sponsor: Scottish Hydro-Electric plc.

L H Johnstone 1999