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Cnocan A' Chluig, Kilkivan
Cairn (Bronze Age), Round Barrow (Bronze Age)
Site Name Cnocan A' Chluig, Kilkivan
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Round Barrow (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 38316
Site Number NR61NE 11
NGR NR 6522 1987
NGR Description NR 6522 1987 and NR 6524 1986
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38316
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Campbeltown
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR61NE 11 6522 1987 and 6524 1986.
(NR 6522 1986) Cairn and Barrow. On the top of a small hill known as Cnocan a' Chluig, 135m SSW of Kilkivan Quarry, there are two burial monuments, both presumably of the Bronze Age, lying side by side in rough ground at a height of 75m OD.
Information from D Colville to OS, 1960.
No change to RCAHMS report.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 29 September 1977.
Measured Survey (19 May 1956)
Site recorded as part of the Marginal Land Survey.
Visited by RCAHMS 19 May 1956.
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Field Visit (May 1965)
Cairn and Barrow, Cnocan a' Chluig, Kilkivan.
On the top of a small hill known as Cnocan a' Chluig, 135 m SSW. of Kilkivan Quarry, there are two burial monuments, both presumably of the Bronze Age, lying side by side in rough ground at a height of 75 m O.D. (Fig. 22) (Colville 1930).
The larger of the two structures (A) is a bowl-cairn, consisting of a circular turf-covered mound composed of a mixture of earth and stones; it measures 8.5 m in diameter by 1.1 m in maximum height and is surrounded by a ditch and external bank. The ditch is 1.0 m wide and 0.2 m deep, and the bank is 1.5 m thick and 0.3 m high. A large pit which has been dug into the centre of the mound has probably destroyed or severely disturbed the primary burial.
The smaller structure (B) appears to be a small ring- or saucer-barrow, consisting simply of a ditch and external bank which enclose a flat space measuring 4.1 m in diameter. The ditch is 0·6 m wide and only 0.08 m deep, while the bank has a thickness of 1.2 m and a height of not more than 0.2 m. A hole has likewise been dug into the centre of this structure.
RCAHMS 1971, visited May 1965
652198 cclvii (unnoted)
