Monument record MHG282 - Cairn, Dun Ban

Summary

Late neolithic-early bronze age cairn. It has been badly robbed.

Location

Grid reference Centred NM 5689 5050 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM55SE
Old County ARGYLL
Civil Parish MORVERN
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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There is a ruined cairn near summit of wooded promontory known as Dun Ban some 335m W of Rhemore. Measuring about 11m in diameter and 2m in height, it has been heavily robbed to provide building material for the surrounding township and for a recent building on top of the cairn itself.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1974.

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  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1980. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). . 56, No. 31.

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Record last edited

Apr 9 2008 5:18PM

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