Glenamachrie
Cairn(S) (Later Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Glenamachrie
Classification Cairn(S) (Later Prehistoric)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Clenamacrie
Canmore ID 23185
Site Number NM92NW 12
NGR NM 9320 2831
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23185
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM92NW 12 9320 2831.
On the north side of the public road through Glen Lonan about 830 metres ESE of Clenamacrie farmhouse (Glenamachrie on OS 1:10,000 map, 1975) there is a small cairn. The west side has been severely damaged during operations for the extraction of timber but excavation of the east side showed that the cairn was composed of a mixture of earth and stones and had originally measured about 6 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres in height. On the south-east and north, several stones of a rough kerb survive. No signs of a cist or burial deposit were found.
To the NE are two further mounds, but these have not been excavated. They measure 4 by 2.5 metres and 0.2 metres in height, and 4.4 by 4 metres and 0.8 metres in height respectively. They may simply be stone clearance mounds, as there are several of such in the vicinity.
RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1972.
The three cairns mentioned occur in a straight line in an area of rig-and-furrow. They, like others in the vicinity would appear to be clearance heaps.
Visited by OS (J P) 10 October 1969.
Field Visit (July 1972)
NM 932 283. There is a small cairn on the north side of the public road through Glen Lonan, 830 metres ESE of Clenamacrie farmhouse. The W side of the cairn has been severely damaged during the extraction of timber, but excavation of the E half by the Commission's officers showed that it was composed of a mixture of earth and stones and had originally measured about 6m in diameter and 0.6m in height*. On the south-east and north, several stones of a rough kerb survive. No signs of a cist or burial deposit were found. Two further mounds to the NE, which measure respectively 4m by 2.5m and 0.2m in height, and 4.4m by 4m and 0.8m, may be similar cairns, but without excavation it is not possible to be certain of this, since there are several mounds of apparently field-gathered stones in the vicinity.
RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1972.
*The Commissioners are indebted to Mrs K McCorquodale, Dunach, for permission to undertake this work.
Excavation (1972)
NM 932283. Half of one of the small cairns near Glenamacrie (DES, 1967, p. 9) was excavated in advance of its destruction in the course of timber extraction, in order to discover whether it was a burial—or a clearance--cairn. It had originally measured about 6m in diameter and 0.6m in height, and was composed of a mixture of stones and earth. Although there was no sign of a cist or burial in the centre of the cairn, the presence of a rough kerbing on the SE and N suggests that it was not a clearance-cairn.
RCAHMS (DES 1972, 59)
