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Great Cumbrae Island, Tomont End
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Great Cumbrae Island, Tomont End
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 40632
Site Number NS15NE 6
NGR NS 1833 5915
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40632
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Cumbrae
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Buteshire
NS15NE 6 1833 5915.
(NS 1834 5915) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1897)
There is a cairn 60ft in circumference and 12ft high, about 300 yards from the "Lady's Grave" (NS15NE 2) supposed to contain the bodies of Haco's men killed at the Battle of Largs (NS25NW 3) in AD 1263. Examination in 1879 and 1881 revealed a central short cist with urn and burnt bones and six secondary cremation burials, five in urns and one without an urn, with two associated flint knives, in or near the cairn. The urns and knives are in the Kelvingrove Museum.
J MacGown 1883; C A Chardenal 1883; Scottish National Memorials 1890; J K Hewison 1893
The correct name of the cairn is Toumantenn.
W Lytteil 1886
This cairn has been greatly mutilated, only part of the east side remaining, turf covered and 0.5m high. The name 'Toumantenn' could not be verified.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (JTT) 5 November 1964
About 1932 a tumulus at Tomont End was almost completely destroyed in order to provide material for the repair and widening of the nearby road. Several urns were exposed but destroyed; but from fragments salvaged, 2 cinerary urns were reconstructed. A cist was also uncovered, and it contained a flint arrowhead and a few calcined bones. These finds are in Bute Museum (This would appear to be the northerly of the two cairns at Tomont End).
D N Marshall 1955; A R Gordon 1979
