Monument record MHG332 - Possible Burial Cairn, Camus Luinge

Summary

Site of possible late neolithic-early bronze age burial cairn.

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Grid reference Centred NM 8660 7680 (16m by 16m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM87NE
Old County ARGYLL
Civil Parish ARDNAMURCHAN
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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Cairn (possible), Camas Luinge: Situated on a spit of level ground beside the SE shore of Loch Shiel, about 250 m SW of Camas Luinge, there is a roughly oval stony mound, which may represent the remains of a burial-cairn. Largely overgrown with grass and moss, the mound measures approximately 16m by 7.5m and stands to a height of 1.0m. RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972.

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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). . 54, No. 20.

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Record last edited

Apr 10 2008 4:14PM

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