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Arran, Glen Cloy

Barrow(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Arran, Glen Cloy

Classification Barrow(S) (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 40134

Site Number NS03NW 1

NGR NS 00 35

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Kilbride
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cunninghame
  • Former County Buteshire

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Desk Based Assessment (13 March 1973)

NS03NW 1 00 35

A group of tumuli once existed in Glen Cloy (NS 00 35). Pennant's (1774) description of them reads 'In Glencloy, a plain, are five earthen tumuli, placed in a row, with another on the outside of them: on the top of one is a depression, or hollow (M'Arthur {1873} alleges this was a bowl barrow); on that of another is a circle of stones, whose ends just appear above the earth'.

Source: T Pennent 1774; J M'Arthur 1873.

Part of the rim of a cinerary urn, found under a tumulus at Glen Cloy, was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1863 by Dr Jamieson, Brodick. (Accession Number EA 79).

Source: Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1865; NMAS 1892.

Information from OS (IF) 13 March 1973.

Field Visit (1 November 1977)

A general search failed to reveal these alleged tumuli nor is there any local knowledge of them.

Visited by OS (T R G), 1 November 1977.

Note (30 July 2018)

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.

HES Survey and Recording 30 July 2018.

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