Kintaline
Cist (Bronze Age)
Site Name Kintaline
Classification Cist (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 22998
Site Number NM83NE 3
NGR NM 8979 3971
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22998
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM83NE 3 8979 3971.
(NM 8979 3971) Cist (NR)
OS 1:2500 map, (1975)
The remains of a cist are visible 27 metres south of the entrance gate to Kintaline, immediately west of the wall bordering the west side of the public road. Three flat slabs survive, but only one of these appears to be still in situ. It measures 0.8 by 0.6 metres and about 0.1 metres in thickness and is aligned approx NE-SW. Its position suggests it may have been one of the cist's side slabs. A second slab of similar size, which may have formed the opposite side of the cist, is leaning over at an angle about 0.5 metres to the NW and a third slab is lying flat nearby.
The cist was discovered about 1870 (Smith 1879). It was covered by a small cairn all traces of which have disappeared. The cist was re-examined in 1963 (Reid 1963) and a large number of white quartz pebbles, many small fragments of bone and a tooth were recovered from it.
A R Smith 1879; W Reid 1963; RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
NM 8979 3971. As described.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.
Visited by OS (D W R) 18 April 1977.
Field Visit (April 1967)
NM 897 397. The remains of a cist can be seen 27m S of the entrance-gate to Kintaline, immediately W of the wall bordering the W side of the public road. At the time of its discovery, about 1870 (Smith, 186), it was covered by a small cairn, measuring not more than 1.2m across. Nothing was found inside and all traces of the cairn have since disappeared. When the cist was re-examined in 1963 (Reid 1963), a large number of white quartz pebbles, many small fragments of bone, and a tooth were recovered from it. At the present time three flat slabs survive, but only one of these appears to be still in situ; it measures 0.8m by 0.6m and about 0.1m in thickness and is aligned approximately NE and SW with its bottom edge buried and its top edge protruding about 0.5m above ground-level. Its position suggests it may have been one of the side slabs of the cist. A second slab of similar size, which may have formed the opposite side of the cist, is leaning over at an angle some 0.5m to the NW, while a third slab is lying flat near by.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
