Colonsay, Milbuie
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Colonsay, Milbuie
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 37919
Site Number NR39SE 43
NGR NR 38769 92924
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37919
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Colonsay And Oronsay
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (16 April 1974)
NR39SE 43 3876 9292.
NR 3877 9292 Situated on top of a heather-clad hill are the grass-covered remains of a cairn. It measures 16.0m in diameter and around its edge are fifteen kerb stones. The interior is stony and disturbed but just off centre is a probable cist comprising a large flat slab 1.5m by 0.9m and 0.4m high which appears to be supported by small stones and beneath which is a hollow.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 16 April 1974
Measured Survey (May 1977)
This cairn was surveyed by plane-table and alidade at a scale of 1:100. The plan was redrawn in ink and then published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984 Fig. 55A)
Field Visit (May 1977)
NR 387 929. On the N end of a broad ridge 650m ESE of Milbuie, and at a height of about 147m OD, there are the remains of what was originally a large cairn; roughly circular on plan, it measures 16m in maximum diameter over a kerb of boulders, and in spite of stone-robbing is still about 1m high. Near the centre, in a mass of disturbed cairn material, there is a large stone slab, up to 0.25 m thick, which may be the capstone of a cist.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1977
