Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Archaeology Notes
Event ID 693322
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693322
NR56SW 1 5047 6315
(NR 5048 6316) Cladh Chlainn Iain (NR) Stones (NAT)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
Cladh Chlainn Iain; This monument occupies an unusual position on a small shelf a short way above the shore. Though much disturbed, the remains suggest a small, wrecked tomb of Clyde type. The main feature is a pair of stones facing ENE which appear to be the portals of a chamber. They are 2ft9ins wide, 3ft high and 1ft2ins apart. To the SE, a smaller stone appears to have formed the corner of a narrow facade. The SE side of the chamber is represented by a slab on edge 4ft5ins long. Eight and a half feet behind the portal stones is a kerb of spaced small stones running in a straight line at right angles to the axis of the chamber. At the S corner, a stone is aligned NE. These stones suggest the remains of a roughly square enclosure, presumably a secondary feature. Little cairn material remains, and it is mainly turf-covered; the cairn seems to have extended 37ft 6ins SW from the portal stones, and is here edged by two large kerb stones, indicating a rounded end to the cairn. Cairn material extends about 5ft in front of the portal stones. Across the chamber, the cairn is about 20ft wide. (cf NR57SE 7)
A S Henshall 1972.
Generally as described by Miss Henshall. However, there is some doubt to the alleged SW extent of the cairn as it would include apparent "living" rock.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 16 May 1978.
