Corriechrevie
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Corriechrevie
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 38954
Site Number NR75SW 1
NGR NR 7384 5405
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38954
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilcalmonell
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (8 June 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (May 1961)
Cairn, Corriechrevie.
This impressive cairn (Pl. 9A), the largest surviving example in Kintyre, stands 200 m NW. of Corriechrevie at a height of about 30 m O.D. It occupies the summit of a slight knoll situated on the brink of the scarp that overlooks the Tarbert-Campbeltown road to the W. Circular on plan, it measures 27.5 m in diameter and 5 m in height; no kerb is visible. Numerous quarry-scoops round the foot of the cairn, and several depressions on the top, indicate that a considerable quantity of stones has been removed from the original structure. But the damage so caused appears to be merely superficial, and the main body of the cairn material and any internal features are probably still undisturbed.
RCAHMS 1971, visited May 1961
738540 CCXXiii
Field Visit (13 August 1973)
NR75SW 1 7384 5405.
(NR 7384 5405) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1924)
As described by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1/10 000
Visited by OS (D W R) 13 August 1973.
