Jura, Barnhill
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Jura, Barnhill
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 39155
Site Number NR79NW 2
NGR NR 70572 97004
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Jura
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR79NW 2 7057 9700.
NR 705 970. Cairn
RCAHMS Undated.
NR 7056 970. Situated on a prominent ridge end is a robbed cairn overgrown with turf and heather. It measures 4.5m in diameter and 0.3m high with one kerb stone in situ and another probable example, now displaced. The centre is hollowed and may have been re-used as a shieling bothy or lambing pen.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (NKB) 9 May 1978.
Field Visit (May 1975)
NR 705 970. A stony mound about 5.5m in diameter and 0.5m high situated on the crest of the ridge E of Barnhill, appears to be a prehistoric burial-cairn.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1975
