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Kilmore
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Kilmore
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Cleigh
Canmore ID 22910
Site Number NM82NE 34
NGR NM 88116 26070
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22910
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmore And Kilbride
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM82NE 34 8811 2607.
(NM 8812 2607) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
This cairn stands to a height of 1.8 metres above the surrounding field, but it has been enlarged to its present diameter of 31.4 metres by the dumping of cairn material round the perimeter when the central area was pillaged in the 19th century. Two slabs, which may have been the sides of a cist measuring about 1 metre in length, 0.6 metres in width and 0.8 metres in depth, lie in the centre of the cairn.
The cairn had already been excavated by the 1870s and it is recorded (Name Book 1870) that the cist contained a cremation in an urn, but the vessel no longer exists.
RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1967.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.
Visited by OS (R D) 13 August 1971.
Field Visit (June 1967)
NM 881 260. This cairn stands to a height of 1.8m above the surrounding field, but it has been enlarged to its present diameter of 31.4m by the dumping of cairn material round the perimeter when the central area was pillaged in the 19th century. Two slabs, which may have been the sides of a cist measuring about 1m in length, 0.6m in width and 0.8m in depth, lie in the centre of the cairn. The cairn had already been excavated by the 1870s and it is recorded that the cist contained a cremation in an 'urn' (Name Book, No. 19, p.78; Smith, Loch Etive, 247), but the vessel no longer exists.
RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1967.
