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Balure
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Balure
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Arg 43; Balure 2; Centre
Canmore ID 23103
Site Number NM84SE 8
NGR NM 89603 41444
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM84SE 8 8960 4145
(NM 8960 4145) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
See also NM84SE 6 and NM84SE 7.
Situated on bleak, heather covered moss, this cairn is the central one of a group of three [NM84SE 6, NM84SE 7, NM84SE 8 ]. It measures 13.7 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres in greatest height. It has been robbed of a large quantity of its stones, and the capstone of a large cist is now partly exposed. This is a massive slab measuring at least 3 metres by 2.1 m with a thickness of 0.4 metres. A portion of one of the side slabs is also visible. The interior of the cist, however, is choked with debris.
Unclassified (Henshall 1972).
A S Henshall 1972; RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 8 November 1971.
Field Visit (April 1967)
About 750 m SW of Balure farmhouse there is a group of three cairns, situated on a bleak heather-covered moss at a height of about 12 m OD.
(2) NM 895 414. Situated 220 m ENE of (1 [NM84SE 6]), the centre cairn* measures 13 ·7 m in diameter and 1·2 m in greatest height. A considerable quantity of stones has been removed from it, and the capstone of a large cist is now partly exposed. It is a massive slab measuring at least 3 m by 2·1 m and 0·4 m in thickness; a portion of one of the side-slabs supporting the capstone is also visible. The interior of the cist is choked with debris.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
*Listed by Henshall as an unclassified chambered cairn (ARG 43)
