Archaeology Notes
Date - 1977
Event ID 697902
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/697902
NR89NW 40 83395 96429.
(NR 8340 9641) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
A ring of erect slabs, 17' in diameter, average height 3' (Campbell and Sandeman 1964) apparently the remains of the retaining wall of a barrow (information and photograph from G E Livock to OS, 1940).
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
This is kerbed cairn comprising 11 stones. The interior contains recent field clearance.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (I A) 2 May 1973.
NR 8340 9642. The remains of a kerbed cairn surviving as 11 earthfast slabs forming a circle 6.0m diameter enclosing a turf-covered stony mound 0.6m high. The slabs are almost continuous in the north quadrant but only a few remain elsewhere. In the west, two large stones lying adjacent to, and outside the circle appear to have been originally part of the kerb.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (T R G) 4 April 1977.
