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Ardyne
Cairn (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Ardyne
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Ardyne Park
Canmore ID 40305
Site Number NS06NE 16
NGR NS 09 68
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40305
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inverchaolain
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS06NE 16 09 68.
In 1836, a concave circle, about 5' in diameter, formed of the larger stones usually found on the shore, was found under a tumulus situated to the N of cairn NS06NE 15. In its centre was a clay urn 6" high, containing black ashes. It was enclosed by three small oblong stones, the top being covered by another, smaller slab.
No particular account has been kept of other similar relics, containing fragments of bones and calcined remains, discovered at different points along the coast.
J C Roger 1859
No trace of this cairn was found and there is no local knowledge of it.
Visited by OS (JP) 27 February 1973
Field Visit (August 1986)
(4) NS 0968. In 1836 an unusual setting was found in the general area of Ardyne Point; a saucer-shaped setting of beach boulders 1.5m in diameter had at its centre an upright clay 'urn' about 0.15m in height 'containing a quantity of black ashes'. The vessel is described as having nearly perpendicular sides 'and round its upper edge was a circular moulding'; it was surrounded by three upright flat slabs (Roger 1859, 253).
Visited August 1986
RCAHMS 1988
