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Ardnacross, Mull

Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)

Site Name Ardnacross, Mull

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)

Canmore ID 22332

Site Number NM55SE 6

NGR NM 5504 5003

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilninian And Kilmore
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM55SE 6 5504 5003

NM 550 500. Cairn (probable), Ardnacross: Situated within 100m of the shore, 135m N of the broch described on NM54NE 4, there is a circular grass-covered mound of stones, measuring 7m in diameter and 0.6m in greatest height, which probably represents the remains of a prehistoric burial-cairn; the centre is slightly hollowed.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972.

NM 5504 5003. A small pile of stones situated in an inconspicuous position amongst rig cultivation. It is not certainly a cairn as suggested by the RCAHMS and is probably a clearance heap.

Visited by OS (D W R), 1 May 1974.

Activities

Field Visit (9 June 1934)

Visited by VG Childe in 1934. See notes in MS 36.

Field Visit (30 July 1942)

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.

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