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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725636

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725636

NX36NE 8 3890 6873.

NX 389 687. Cairn Barclye Cottage: There is a round cairn on the crest of the slight ridge that descends from Drumwhirn Wood to the road 350 yds SSE of Barclye Cottage. It measures 60' in diameter and is reduced to 2'6" in elevation. A ragged trench which runs from the SSE arc toward the centre of the cairn for a distance of 20' may represent a passage and chamber wrecked by stone robbers.

RCAHMS TS., visited 1952

NX 3890 6873 This cairn measures 18.5m in diameter and up to 1.5m high. 7.0m from the S edge and at the end of the slight trench referred to by the RCAHMS are two small earthfast stones 0.7m apart which may be the remains of a cist or even the sides of a passage of a Bargrennan type chambered cairn. However, there is no trace of a chamber and only excavation would determine the type of this cairn.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JP) 18 August 1976

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