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Glen Etive
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Glen Etive
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Invercharnon
Canmore ID 23689
Site Number NN14NW 1
NGR NN 14393 47610
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23689
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NN14NW 1 1439 4761.
(NN 1439 4761) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1974)
This cairn, one of the best preserved in Lorn, stands in pasture on the west bank of the River Etive about 700 metres south of Invercharnan. Bowl shaped in profile it measures 8.25 metres in diameter by 1.6 metres in height. It has been constructed with a kerb of boulders on which a second retaining course of stones has been carefully set.
RCAHMS 1975, visited 1971
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
Visited by OS (RD) 13 May 1970
Field Visit (May 1971)
NN 143 476. One of the best-preserved cairns in Lorn is situated in pasture on the W bank of the River Etive about 700m S of Invercharnan. Bowl-shaped in profile it measures 8.25m in diameter by 1.6m in height. It has been constructed with a kerb of boulders on which a second retaining course of stones has been carefully set.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1971 .
