Carnasserie
Cist (Bronze Age)
Site Name Carnasserie
Classification Cist (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 22839
Site Number NM80SW 23
NGR NM 8391 0051
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmartin
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM80SW 23 8391 0051.
? NM 838 005. Cist reported on edge of terrace, just buried. Found by farmer 50 years ago, but not opened.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
NM 8391 0052. The two side slabs of this earthfilled short cist measure 1.2m long and 0.6m apart and are oriented E-W. Nothing has been found in the cist which was opened several years ago.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 12 October 1971.
Field Visit (November 1984)
Two side-slabs of an earth-filled cist are visible to the N of the track leading to Carnasserie Castle and some 90m WNW of Carnasserie Cottage; aligned E and W, the cist has measured about 1.2m by 0.6m (Campbell and Sandeman 1964, no. 132). When it was discovered in the early part of this century it was not opened, but in 1971 it was reported to have been examined several years earlier, when it was found to be empty (OS 1971). The N side-slab is about 1.3m long and 0.07m thick with a groove (50mm broad and 10mm deep) some 0.24m from the W end; the side-slab is 1.44m long and about 0.1m thick with slight traces of a groove 0.24m from the W end corresponding to that on the N side.
RCAHMS 1988, visited November 1984.
