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Arran, Kilpatrick, 16/3
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Beaker (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Site Name Arran, Kilpatrick, 16/3
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Beaker (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 362410
Site Number NR92NW 27.01
NGR NR 90831 26362
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/362410
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Kilmory
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Buteshire
NR92NW 27 centred 90757 26441
[See also NR92NW 27.1 and NR92NW 22]
NR 906 261. A platform and two cairns were excavated in 1978-9 and some 20 sections were cut through the field fences. The platform (? part of an unenclosed settlement) measured c18 x 12m on which a hut had been formed by a circle of 11 post holes defined an entrance. It had a central hearth and a revetment wall behind it. It yielded some flints including a leaf-shaped arrowhead. The SW clearance cairn [NR92NW 22] covered a kerb cairn enclosing a small polygonal cist from which an AOC Beaker had been removed in antiquity. The cairn was c6m in diameter. The ground surface beneath it has been dated to 1885 +/- 55bc. The hilltop cairn to the NE [NR92NW 27.1] was 16m in diameter with a substantial kerb. It contained an inner boulder setting. There were 2 primary cists and a central secondary cist which contained 2 Food Vessel sherds. Investigation and excavation of pre-peat field dykes revealed cultivation plots, ard-marks, etc.
NGR location given per se as NR 907 263
J Barber 1978; J Barber 1979; J Barber 1980.
