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Gleann Beag
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age), Structure (Period Unknown)
Site Name Gleann Beag
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age), Structure (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 29612
Site Number NO17SW 22
NGR NO 12698 73292
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/29612
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (24 February 1988)
NO17SW 22 1270 7329.
Situated on the edge of a low ridge on the E side of Gleann Beag, and 750m S of Rhiedorrach, there are the remains of a robbed cairn. It measures up to about 13.3m in diameter but much of the cairn material has been displaced to its E side. Fragments of a boulder kerb are visible on the SW and NE, and immediately N of the present centre are the remains of a cist. It was aligned roughly NE-SW and the NW and NE sides survive to provide minimum measurements of 0.75m by about 0.5m and 0.3m deep. Two slabs which lie to the NW of the cist may have been capping stones or they may be displaced side-slabs. The W side of the cairn is partially overlain by a later rectangular structure.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 24 February 1988.
RCAHMS 1990
