Archaeology Notes
Date 1973 - 1977
Event ID 696791
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/696791
NR93NE 3 9867 3606.
(NR 9863 3605) Cairn (NR).
OS 6" map, (1924)
A small mound of earth and stones. Many cartloads of stones have been removed to build the parapets of the bridges on the Brodick-Shiskin road. In its centre are the remains of cists.
Source: Name Book 1864.
NR 9867 3606. A turf and bracken-covered cairn situated on a level shelf of a moderately steep hillslope. It is 12.8m E-W by 10.7m, up to 1.2m high and has been mutilated in the south. Near the centre are four large slab-like stones; three are up to 0.8m high, the other is almost buried. They cannot be identified as a recognisable structure. There is a small sub-rectangular depression (1.0m by 0.6m by 0.2m deep) near the edge of the cairn; it is lined by one large and five smaller stones, but does not have the appearance of either a cist or chamber.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (T R G) 3 November 1977.
