Dunamuck
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunamuck
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 39578
Site Number NR89SW 22
NGR NR 8457 9192
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39578
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR89SW 22 8457 9192.
(NR 8457 9192) The remains of a probable chambered cairn, about 100' in diameter, lying at just over 50' OD in an undulating field. It has probably been built on a rock outcrop, part of which can still be seen at the NE edge.
The cairn material is still several feet deep and grass-grown, except on the S side where a bank of bare stones remains. There are many robbing hollows in the surface. On the E side of the cairn two stones which may be part of a kerb are visible.
About 26' from the S edge of the cairn four stones which appear to be part of a ruined chamber are partly exposed and a large slab lies flat a few feet to the SSE where the entrance to the chamber might be expected. The interior of the chamber is so filled with stones that the slabs project only 1'-2'.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; A S Henshall 1972, visited 1961; Cairn visible on RAF air photographs 541/A/398:4109-10 (flown 1948).
A chambered cairn, generally as described.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (DWR) 27 April 1972.
A chambered cairn as described by Henshall (1972). It has been disturbed by both stone robbing and dumping.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 1 April 1977.
Field Visit (May 1982)
Occupying the summit of a low knoll overlooking the flood plain of the River Add, 375m SE of Dunamuck, there is a cairn measuring about 33m by 31m and standing up to 2m in height. Ploughing, robbing and dumping of field-gathered stones have given the cairn an irregular outline and profile. Two upright slabs one 1.7m long by 0.3m thick and up to 0.45m high and the other 0.7m long by 0.3m thick and up to 0.7m high, lie almost at right angles to each other 0.2m apart and about 10m from the S edge of the cairn; a slab 2.4m long and 0.2m thick embedded in the cairn material lies nearby. The suggestion that these stones may have formed part of a ruined chamber can be proved only by excavation. An upright earthfast slab 0.5m long by 0.1m thick projects 0.2m from the cairn material at a point 12m N of the upright slabs.
RCAHMS 1988, visited May 1982.
Management (8 March 2004)
Scheduled as 'Dunamuck, chambered cairn 350m SSE of... the remains of a chambered burial cairn'.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 March 2004.
