Lismore, Barr Mor
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Lismore, Barr Mor
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Barr Mor 1
Canmore ID 23004
Site Number NM83NW 12
NGR NM 81498 38869
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM83NW 12 8149 3886.
(NM 8149 3887) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
On the summit of Barr Mor is a cairn measuring 6.9 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres in height, and on which an OS triangulation pillar has been erected. The kerb, formed of large boulders up to 0.55 metres in height, is almost complete. Two courses of kerb-stones are visible in some places, but this may be due to the fact that the cairn was rebuilt in 1933.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
Visited by OS (R D) 29 November 1971.
Field Visit (9 July 1943)
Below the survey cairn on the summit of this hill are remains of a cairn some 30ft in diameter, delimited by a distinct cairn that seems prehistoric.
Visited by RCAHMS 9 July 1943.
Field Visit (May 1968)
NM 814 388. The cairn (plan, Fig. 17) situated on the summit of Barr Mor (126 m OD) is surmounted by an Ordnance Survey triangulation station. It measures 6.9 m in diameter by 1.2 m in height, and the kerb, which is formed of large boulders up to 0.55 m in height, is almost complete. In some places two courses of kerb-stones are visible, but this may be due to the fact that the cairn was rebuilt in 1933 (TGAS, ix, 110).
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968.
Measured Survey (1970)
Surveyed with plane-table and alidade. Redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1975, fig. 17).
