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Colintraive

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Colintraive

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 40474

Site Number NS07SW 1

NGR NS 0322 7444

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Inverchaolain
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes ( - 1976)

NS07SW 1 0322 7444.

NS 033 745. There is a large cairn in the field beside the ferry at Colintraive. It was opened many years ago and it is said that bones were found.

M Paterson 1970.

NS 0322 7444. A Wessex-type bell cairn consisting of a turf-covered stony mound 10.0m in diameter and 1.2m high, place centrally on a platform 17.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, leaving a circumscribing berm 2.8m in width. There is a slight mutilation to the centre of the mound.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (I A) 21 November 1972.

No change to field report previous OS field report.

Visited by OS (B S) 7 December 1976.

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Field Visit (May 1986)

This cairn is situated in an arable field 100m SSW of Colintraive Hotel and about 50m from the shore; measuring 13m by 12m and 1m in height, it stands on a stony platform about 1m above the level of the field. The platform, which has been much mutilated by ploughing measures about 18m by 17m. There are two possible kerbstones on the SW side of the cairn and other irregularly set boulders on the n and S sides of the platform. The centre of the cairn has been extensively disturbed. The cup-and-ring-marked slab (NS07SW 9), which was found nearby, may originally have come from this site.

Visited May 1986

RCAHMS 1988

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