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Barochreal

Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)

Site Name Barochreal

Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)

Canmore ID 22971

Site Number NM82SW 15

NGR NM 83358 20676

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilninver And Kilmelford
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM82SW 15 8335 2067.

(NM 8335 2067) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Situated in the middle of a level field west of Barochreal farmhouse, there is a roughly circular grass-grown cairn measuring 9.8 metres in average diameter and 1.7 metres in height. It appears to have been kerbed by a series of massive boulders, several of which survive in situ on the perimeter of the south half, the largest measuring 1.1 by 0.5 metres and protruding 0.8 metres above ground level.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1966.

As described.

Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visited by OS (R D) 14 September 1971.

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Field Visit (May 1966)

NM 833 206. Situated in the middle of a level field west of Barochreal farmhouse, there is a roughly circular grass-grown cairn measuring 9.8 metres in average diameter and 1.7 metres in height. It appears to have been kerbed by a series of massive boulders, several of which survive in situ on the perimeter of the south half, the largest measuring 1.1 by 0.5 metres and protruding 0.8 metres above ground level.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1966.

Measured Survey (1966)

Surveyed and redrawn in ink, but not published.

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