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Great Cumbrae Island, Tomont End, Lady's Grave

Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Great Cumbrae Island, Tomont End, Lady's Grave

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) 'At The Holm, Near Tomantend'

Canmore ID 40623

Site Number NS15NE 2

NGR NS 1830 5888

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40623

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Cumbrae
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cunninghame
  • Former County Buteshire

Archaeology Notes

NS15NE 2 1830 5888

(NS 1831 5888) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1897)

See also NS15NE 5.

The Southern Cairn, or "Lady's Grave", at the Holm, near Tomantend, is a mound of stones, on the old raised beach about 30 yds from the shore, about 6ft high and 40ft in circumference, in which was found, on the 12th September 1878, a short cist containing an urn and burnt bones. The urn is in the Kelvingrove Museum. (Lady's Grave is the name applied by the ONB to a site to the N - see NS15NE 5).

J MacGown 1883; Scottish National Memorials 1890; J K Hewison 1893.

NS 1830 5889. The cairn which is now bracken and turf covered, is sub-circular c.10.0m diameter and 1.2m maximum height. The centre is hollowed to a depth of 0.2m, possibly the result of the excavation mentioned by MacGown. See NS15NE 5 field report for comment on Lady's Grave.

Revised at 25".

Visited by OS (JTT) 5 November 1964.

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