Asgog Bay
Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Asgog Bay
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 39841
Site Number NR96NW 4
NGR NR 9430 6774
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR96NW 4 9430 6774.
(NR 9431 6773) There is an almost circular cairn, 73'-84' in diameter, 72 yds SW of NR96NW 2. It also is on the floor of the valley, on the material of the 25' raised beach, c.180 yds from high water mark. Its W edge is within 10' of the bank of the stream running through the valley. It is about 6' high, and is irregular in form, having been extensively robbed, a scoop 4' deep and 26' wide having been made for a distance of 35' into its E side. It has never been properly investigated, and there is no knowledge of any relics from it.
J G Scott 1952.
The remains of this cairn are generally as described, measuring c.16m E-W by c.13m and up to 1.2m high. According to the farmer this cairn was excavated c.1932 and several urns were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (D W R) 27 October 1972.
NR 9431 6775. A cairn as described in field report of 27 October 1972. Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (B S) 6 October 1976.
Field Visit (September 1942)
On the haugh-land between Ascog and the shore east of the burn are two cairns, while two cists were exposed by ploughing close by. One cist is still intact and covered over; the other, close to the burn, was examined by Mr Turnbull; it contained cremated bones without grave-goods. Under a cairn immediately to the E of it Mr Turnbull found a cist containing a food-vessel urn now in the Kelvingrove Museum. The other cairn has not been opened. There is a small hut-circle to the W of the burn.
Visited by RCAHMS September 1942
Information from Mr Turnbull.
Field Visit (May 1985)
Situated in a pasture field about 900m S of Stallaig farm and 250m from the shore, this grass-covered cairn, about 17m in diameter and 1.8m high, has been clipped by the plough on the N flank. During excavations undertaken in 1927 a large slab (1.5m by 1m) at the centre of the cairn was found to be covering a small cist aligned N and S and containing a Food Vessel near its S end. No burial remains were recovered, but the excavators considered that the cist was too small to have contained an inhumation. Teeth and portions of bones of at least two pigs, however, were discovered immediately outside the cists. The Food Vessel is preserved in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.
Two flat stones lying on the hollowed surface of the cairn material may have been the slabs of a cist, but it is also possible that they have been cleared from the adjacent field; they measure 0.73m by 0.7m and 0.07m in thickness and 0.7m by 0.6m and 0.05m in thickness.
Visited May 1985
RCAHMS 1988
