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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 694891
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/694891
NR70NW 1 72010 09289.
(NR 7201 0928) Stone Circle and Cist (NR)
OS 6" map (1924)
A Clyde group, chambered, long cairn, about 72ft overall, with cairn material remaining to a depth of only about 3ft, but displaying peristalith, concave forecourt facade and both axial and lateral chambers. The site is now grass-grown with the edges merging into the gentle slope, but the upright peristalith stones can be traced around most of the circuit, especially on the north where they stand to a maximum height of 2ft 3ins. At the east end of the south side a single course of smaller stones links the larger to form a wall-face. The east-facing facade is well-preserved although cairn-material has over-run it as far as a line between the horns. The stones are irregular in shape and pointed, the tallest, 3ft high above the turf being the north portal. The axial chamber is only partly exposed, one of the westernmost stones, just showing through the turf, possibly being a corbel stone lying over a hidden, low orthastat. A lateral chamber, entered from the south, lies 31ft west of the facade. There is no indicatioin that it extended to the cairn edge.
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1965; A S Henshall 1972.
The chambered cairn is as described above.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JB) 29 September 1977.
