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Glenamachrie

Cairn (Later Prehistoric)

Site Name Glenamachrie

Classification Cairn (Later Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Clenamacrie

Canmore ID 23197

Site Number NM92NW 23

NGR NM 92456 28549

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 23 9245 2854.

(NM 9245 2854) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

Situated in rough ground between the public road and close to the River Lonan and about 35 metres west of the standing stone (NM92NW 1), is a cairn, appearing as an oval stony mound measuring 19.1 by 17.2 metres and as much as 2.6 metres in height.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1972.

Generally as described.

Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.

Visited by OS (R D) 8 October 1969.

Noted that on OS 1:10,000 map, (1975), the measured distance from cairn to the standing stone referred to is about 50 metres.

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Field Visit (May 1972)

NM 924 285. Situated in rough ground between the public road and close to the River Lonan and about 35m W of the standing stone (NM92NW 1), is a cairn, appearing as an oval stony mound measuring 19.1m by 17.2m and as much as 2.6m in height.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1972.

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