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Bute, Stravanan Bay

Barrow (Prehistoric)

Site Name Bute, Stravanan Bay

Classification Barrow (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Langalbuinoch

Canmore ID 40256

Site Number NS05NE 6

NGR NS 07908 56455

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kingarth
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Buteshire

Archaeology Notes

NS05NE 6 07984 56406.

(NS 0799 5640) Tumulus (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1957)

This tumulus was levelled about 20 years ago.

Name Book c.1863.

There is no trace of a tumulus at this site, which falls within a pasture field.

Visited by OS (B S) 27 October 1976.

Nothing is visible of this cairn or barrow and its site lies in what is now an arable field 430m SSW of Langalbuinoch farmsteading. The position of the ‘Tumulus' is depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, sheet CCXV).

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 6 May 2009.

Activities

Reference (3 July 1972)

This tumulus was levelled about 20 years ago.

Field Visit (27 October 1976)

There is no trace of a tumulus at this site, which falls within a pasture field.

Visited by OS (B S) 27 October 1976.

Field Visit (6 May 2009)

Nothing is visible of this cairn or barrow and its site lies in what is now an arable field 430m SSW of Langalbuinoch farmsteading. The position of the ‘Tumulus' is depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, sheet CCXV).

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 6 May 2009.

Aerial Photographic Transcription (21 June 2011)

Note (10 May 2012)

What is probably a ditched barrow, a field boundary and modern drainage have been recorded as cropmarking on aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 2010) in fields about 400m SW of Langalbuinoch farmstead (NS05NE 104). The barrow (NS 07908 56455) is visible as partial circuit of ditch, broken by a narrow gap on the NW, and by a larger gap on the SE. The ditch is about 1.5m across, enclosing an area about 14m in diameter. This probably marks the location of a tumulus or barrow first noted in the 1860s as having been ‘levelled about 20 years ago’ (OS Name Book 4, 39). The field boundary, also defined by a ditch, lies to the SW of the barrow, perhaps defining the NE side of a field.

Information from RCAHMS (AGCH, GFG) 10 May 2012.

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