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Achanancarn, Moss Of Achnacree
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Achanancarn, Moss Of Achnacree
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Achanacree Moss; Achnacairn
Canmore ID 23237
Site Number NM93NW 22
NGR NM 92664 35661
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23237
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM93NW 22 9266 3566
(NM 9266 3566) Cairn (NR).
(Undated) OS annotation.
In a small patch of scrub about 65 metres SW of Achanancarn (Achnacairn on OS 1:10 000 1976) farmhouse are the remains of a cairn, so heavily overgrown that very few stones are visible. It measures 23 metres by 20 metres and has a maximum height of 0.9 metres.
RCAHMS 1975.
As described. Kerbing is visible intermittently on the north and east sides of the cairn.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.
Visited by OS (DWR), 28 October 1971.
Field Visit (April 1967)
NM 926 356. Situated in a small patch of scrub 65m SW of Achanancarn farmhouse, and at a height of about 25m OD, there are the wasted remains of a cairn measuring 23m by 20m and 0.9m in maximum height. It is so overgrown that very few stones are visible.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
