Seil, Clachan Bridge
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Seil, Clachan Bridge
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Barnafeochag
Canmore ID 22591
Site Number NM71NE 11
NGR NM 77949 19258
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (May 1966)
NM71NE 779 192
This cairn is situated on a rocky spine separating two strips of cultivated ground some 700m SW of Clachan Bridge (RCAHMS 1975, No. 369). Roughly circular on plan, it appears as a grass-covered stony mound measuring about 22m in diameter and 2m in height. Several large kerb-stones are still visible on the S and W arcs of the perimeter, but elsewhere the remains have been greatly disturbed by stone-robbing.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1966
Field Visit (14 September 1971)
NM71NE 11 7794 1926.
NM 7794 1926. There is a sub-circular cairn 350 yds E of the ruined shieling at Barnafeochag. It is composed of earth and stones, now grass-grown, and measures c. 18.0m in diameter by 1.5m in average height. Though the RCAHMS (1975, visited 1966) note a setting of stones, rather like a kerb, on the S and SW, this was not noted in 1971.
Visited by OS (RD) 14 September 1971.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
