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Droineach
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Droineach
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 39113
Site Number NR78SW 15
NGR NR 7005 8130
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR78SW 15 7005 8130.
NR 7005 8130:- Situated on the end of a spur of a ridge is a grass-covered cairn, measuring 8.1m in diameter and 0.5m high. About 18 boulders of a kerb up to 1.0m high remain. The N side of the cairn has been slightly robbed but is otherwise undisturbed.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 25 May 1973.
A cairn, noted in 1935, but hitherto unpublished.
A J Haddow and D Hannay 1974.
As described in the report of 25 May 1973.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 20 January 1977.
Field Visit (June 1982)
Situated on the summit of a long ridge 350m NNW of Droineach, there is a roughly circular cairn 8m in diameter, which, although considerably denuded, still stands to a height of 0.9m (Haddow and Hannay 1974). A notable feature is the series of large boulders, up to 0.7m high by 1.2m wide and 0.5m thick, which forms a kerb around the perimeter; the kerb is now discontinuous, and it is likely that the four dislodged boulders shown on the plan (RCAHMS 1988), also belonged to it.
Visited May 1982
RCAHMS 1988
Measured Survey (24 May 1982)
RCAHMS surveyed Droineach cairn on 24 May 1982 with plane-table and alidade producing a plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan of the cairn was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1988a, 58).
