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Arecleoch
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Arecleoch
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 61775
Site Number NX17NE 2
NGR NX 1744 7828
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Ballantrae (Kyle And Carrick)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX17NE 2 1741 7827.
(NX 1741 7827) Cairn (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1957)
The remains of a cairn, 10m in diameter and 0.6m in maximum height, in whose centre the remains of a burial chamber lie exposed.
Visited by OS (JLD) 1 November 1955
Four stones remain of the chamber of a chambered cairn probably of the Bargrennan group. The chamber has been about 9 feet long and 3 feet wide and a large rounded boulder set on end 3ft 9ins high at the east end may be interpreted as the portal stone of a chamber facing east or the back-slab of a chamber facing west.
A S Henshall 1972, visited 1956
This cairn has been completely destroyed by a Forestry Commission quarry.
Visited by OS (JP) 27 April 1976
Field Visit (July 1981)
Arecleoch (AYR 2) NX 174 782 NX17NE 2
Nothing remains of this chambered cairn of Bargrennan type.
RCAHMS 1981, visited July 1981
(Name Book, Ayr, No. 6, pp. 51, 75; Smith 1895, 224; Henshall 1972, 397)
