Glennan
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glennan
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 22791
Site Number NM80SE 32
NGR NM 8564 0115
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmartin
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM80SE 32 8564 0115.
(NM 8564 0115) Cairns (NR) (The annotation embraces NM80SE 30 and NM80SE 32 ). OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
A possible small cairn is situated between NM80SE 30 and NM80SE 31.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
A cairn, a few metres to the SW of NM80SE 30, measures 6.6 metres in diameter and is 0.6 metres high. It has a slightly hollowed centre and modern clearance has disturbed its shape.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.
Visited by OS (D W R) 7 October 1971.
Situated on level ground 440 m SW of Creagantairbh Beag farmhouse and 20 m E of the public road (B840), there are two cairns (Campbell and Sandeman 1964. The N cairn measures 11.5m in diameter by 1.5m in height, and its centre has been disturbed, revealing what is probably the overturned cover slab of a cist. This slab, which measures 1.6m by 1.2m, bears at least nine cupmarks. A slight depression surrounding the cairn may indicate the presence of a ditch. About 3m to the SSW there is a second cairn, measuring 6.6m in diameter by 0.8m in height, and its centre has also been disturbed.
Visited June 1982
RCAHMS 1988
