Kinlochaline

NM64NE 5 6922 4740.

(NM 6922 4740) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

An incomplete circle of stones (3 shown on OS 6" map) about 2 1/2' high.

Name Book 1872.

The remains of a cairn situated on a shelf. All that survives is the SW arc of eight contiguous kerb-stones, c. 0.5m high, suggesting an original diameter of c. 5.0m. No cairn material is evident.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 11 June 1970.

(NM 6912 4739) Cairn (NR) (remains of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

Two cairns, situated together, 335m SSW of Kinlochaline farm.

The larger of the two, orginally about 6m in diameter, has been severely robbed of stone, the N and E sides being totally destroyed. Only the kerb-stones on the SW perimeter survive intact, standing to a height of about 0.6m, but very little cairn material is visible within the line of the kerb. The smaller of the pair, 1.5m to the W, was partly excavated by the RCAHMS in 1974 (Ritchie and Thornber 1977), but was found to have been previously robbed by means of a shaft dug into its centre. Excavation revealed, however, that it measured 3.1m in diameter and that there had originally been nineteen kerb-stones, though a number of these had slipped out of position, with an inner filling of stones, earth and several scatters of white quartz. Some of the stones of the cairn material were of considerable size, including one measuring 0.9m by 0.85m and about 0.2m in thickness. The basal layer within the cairn contained tiny fragments of cremated bone; a few sherds of indeterminate pottery, now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), were also recovered.

J N Ritchie and I Thornber 1977; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1974.