Monument record MHG483 - Probable Cairn, Ardness

Summary

Site of probable late neolithic-bronze age burial cairn. Scheduled.

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Grid reference Centred NM 6617 4446 (16m by 16m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM64SE
Old County ARGYLL
Civil Parish MORVERN
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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Scheduled 2/2003 see secondary file for details - HAW 4/2003

Cairn (NR) OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

A cairn, as described by OS (AA).
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1973.

Situated on a low outcrop about 100m W of the cairn described on NM64SE 2 is a circular mound of stones about 5.0m in diameter and 0.6m in height. It has been severely disturbed, and although it reveals no sign of a kerb or cist, it is probably a cairn.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 12 June 1970.

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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). . 60, No. 53(3).

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Record last edited

Apr 10 2008 4:38PM

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