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Arran, Kilpatrick
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age), Four Poster Stone Circle (Bronze Age)(Possible), Beaker (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Site Name Arran, Kilpatrick
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age), Four Poster Stone Circle (Bronze Age)(Possible), Beaker (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Kilpatrick 1; Cairn 16/2
Canmore ID 39631
Site Number NR92NW 22
NGR NR 90766 26398
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39631
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Kilmory
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Buteshire
NR92NW 22 9076 2639
A round low-lying mound 11.0m in diameter and 1.5m in height with a few stones visible lies to the east of a field boundary.
Information from Ms DoE Arran Field Survey, 1976 (see archive).
NR 9076 2639. This oval peat and stone mound 10.0m by 8.0m and 1.0m high is most probably a clearance heap and is of minor archaeological significance.
(See NR83SE 11 ).
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (M J F) 20 October 1977.
NR92NW 27 centred 90757 26441
[See also NR92NW 27.1 and NR92NW 22]
NR 906 261. A platform and two cairns were excavated in 1978-9 and some 20 sections were cut through the field fences. The platform (? part of an unenclosed settlement) measured c18 x 12m on which a hut had been formed by a circle of 11 post holes defined an entrance. It had a central hearth and a revetment wall behind it. It yielded some flints including a leaf-shaped arrowhead. The SW clearance cairn [NR92NW 22] covered a kerb cairn enclosing a small polygonal cist from which an AOC Beaker had been removed in antiquity. The cairn was c6m in diameter. The ground surface beneath it has been dated to 1885 +/- 55bc. The hilltop cairn to the NE [NR92NW 27.1] was 16m in diameter with a substantial kerb. It contained an inner boulder setting. There were 2 primary cists and a central secondary cist which contained 2 Food Vessel sherds. Investigation and excavation of pre-peat field dykes revealed cultivation plots, ard-marks, etc.
NGR location given per se as NR 907 263
J Barber 1978; J Barber 1979; J Barber 1980.
Note (28 November 2018)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.
HES Survey and Recording 28 November 2018
