Salachail
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Salachail
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 23559
Site Number NN05SE 1
NGR NN 0596 5139
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23559
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN05SE 1 0596 5139.
(NN 0596 5139) Cairn (NR).
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
This cairn is situated on the north side of a forestry road in Glen Creran, NE of Salachail farm. It is 12.5 metres in width. Sixteen kerb stones survive round the perimeter, the largest measuring about 1.1 by 0.5 metres. The cairn, now largely grass grown, has been damaged on the north side by recent deep ploughing for afforestation.
RCAHMS 1975, visited October 1967.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000
Visited by OS (R D) 5 May 1970.
Watching Brief (22 January 2020)
NN 05961 51392 A watching brief was undertaken, on 22 January 2020, on the machine excavation of a service trench for an electricity cable associated with the hydroelectric scheme on Allt Eilidh. The machine stripping of topsoil and subsoil down to roughly 1m below the surface was watched along the length of the service trench 60m to the W and 60m to the E of a Scheduled burial cairn (SM 2541; Canmore ID 23559). No features or deposits of archaeological or historical significance were discovered.
Funder: Renewables First
Clare Ellis − Argyll Archaeology
(Source: DES Vol 21)
