Arran, Dunan Mor

NS03NW 7 0280 3315.

(NS 0279 3315) Cairn (NR) Flint Knife & Urn found AD 1909-10 (NAT).

OS 6" map, (1924)

Clyde group, round cairn, Dunan Mor: This cairn has been much robbed for building nearby walls, and is now a stony heather-covered mound, still 5ft high on the SW side but mostly left as irregular hummocks 2-3ft high. The edge is little disturbed and quite clear; the diameter is 78ft. There are the remains of three chambers in the cairn, placed radially facing SSE, W and NNE. They are now partly filled with debris but most of the structural stones can be seen. In 1909, Bryce (1909) excavated the N and central compartments of the S chamber and the central compartment of the W chamber. Artifacts found, now in the NMAS, were pottery sherds (EO 323, 324) flint knife (EO 319), flint and pitchstone flakes (EO 321). Fragments of burnt bone were also found.

Sources: T H Bryce 1909; A S Henshall 1972, visited 1962.

NS 0280 3315. The remains of a chambered cairn as descrbed by Miss Henshall. It is surrounded by afforestation and is so covered in heather that an accurate inspection of the chambers is not possible.

Surveyed at 1:10 000

Visited by OS (B S) 25 October 1977.