Monument record MHG13226 - Acharn
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NM 6978 5049 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NM65SE |
Old County | ARGYLL |
Civil Parish | MORVERN |
Geographical Area | LOCHABER |
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Full Description
NM65SE 5 697 505.
NM 697 505. Cairns, Acharn: Cairn 'A' is situated 200m SSE of the cairn described on NM65SE 4 and 300m NW of Acharn. It is a well-preserved platform-cairn measuring 13.5m in diameter and 0.6m in height. Almost all the kerb-stones, consiting of granite erratic boulders survive in situ. A central cist (not shown on RCAHMS plan) was discovered and excavated in 1977; it contained cremated bone, charcoal, a flint scraper and fragments of pottery (Information from I Thornber, Ardtornish).
Two more cairns (B and C) are situated respectively 30m S and 4.6m N of A. Both appear simply as small sub-circular mounds, the former
measuring 7m across and 0.4m high, and the latter 6.5m across and 0.2m high.
A fourth cairn (D) is noted (Thornber 1974) 57.91m S of A. It measures 3.66m in diameter and 0.61m in height. It is not recorded by the RCAHMS who therefore do not consider it to be an antiquity.
I Thornber 1974; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1977; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1974.
Radiocarbon determination on charcoal from central cist of cairn 3:
125 +/- 80 ad (GU-2070).
JNG Ritchie and I Thornber 1989.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM