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Glenamachrie

Cairn (Later Prehistoric)

Site Name Glenamachrie

Classification Cairn (Later Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Clenamacrie

Canmore ID 23195

Site Number NM92NW 21

NGR NM 92128 28702

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM92NW 21 9213 2870.

(NM 9213 2870) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

Standing on rough ground between the public road and the River Lonan, is a cairn, appearing as an oval, stony mound measuring 18.6 by 17.4 metres and standing to a height of 1.9 metres.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1972.

A cairn as described by the RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (R D) 8 October 1969.

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Field Visit (May 1972)

NM 921 287. Two cairns are situated in rough ground between the public road and the River Lonan in the vicinity of Clenamacrie farmhouse.

The second cairn, similar in general appearance to the first [NM92NW 23], is situated about 300m WNW of Clenamacrie farmhouse; it measures 18.6m by 17.4m and stands to a height of 1.9m.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1972.

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