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Dunstaffnage House
Cairn (Later Prehistoric)
Site Name Dunstaffnage House
Classification Cairn (Later Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 23039
Site Number NM83SE 22
NGR NM 89782 33840
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23039
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmore And Kilbride
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM83SE 22 8978 3382.
(NM 8978 3382) Cairn (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
No visible traces remain of what was probably a cairn, situated in a small plantation 120 metres west of the junction of the main Connel-Oban road and the approach road to Dunstaffnage House. It was destroyed during the second half of the 18th century when the main road was constructed. Previously described as a stone circle consisting of eleven upright stones (Name Book 1870), it is much more likely that the structure was originally a cairn with a massive stone kerb.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967; Name Book 1870.
The site is indicated by a slight, amorphous, turf-covered mound of small stones, suggesting that this is probably the site of a cairn.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.
Visited by OS (R D) 25 August 1971.
Field Visit (April 1967)
NM 897 338. No visible traces remain of what was probably a cairn, situated in a small plantation 120m W of the junction of the main Connel-Oban road and the approach road to Dunstaffnage House. It was destroyed during the second half of the 18th century, when the main road was constructed. Although previously described as a stone circle consisting of eleven upright stones (Name Book 1870), it is much more likely that the structure was originally a cairn, having a massive stone kerb like those recorded at Strontoiller and Culcharron (RCAHMS 1975 Nos. 78 and 43).
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
