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Kelly Burn

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Kelly Burn

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Kelly Bank Cottage; Berry Hill; Kelly Glen

Canmore ID 41280

Site Number NS26NW 8

NGR NS 2142 6844

NGR Description NS c. 2142 6844

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Inverclyde
  • Parish Inverkip
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Inverclyde
  • Former County Renfrewshire

Archaeology Notes

NS26NW 8 c. 2142 6844

See also NS26NW 46 and NS26NW 47.

At NS 214 684 is a cairn, 21ft in diameter by 2 1/2ft-3ft high. It has been disturbed by an off-centre cross-trench.

F Newall 1964

(Entered at cited location NS 2135 6835). The fourth year of survey of the Loch Thom area was undertaken in May and June 2000 (DES 1999, 62). The areas covered were Loch Thom, Blood Moss, Flatterton Farm, and the land between Garvock and Dowries Farm.

NS 2135 6835 Cairn; 6.5m in diameter, 0.75m high.

I Hogg 2000.

Scheduled as 'Kelly Bank Cottage, cairn 750m ENE of... the remains of a cairn with burial cist, built probably... in the late Neolithic period or Bronze Age. It is visible as a low mound of turf-covered stones and lies in moorland at about 165m above sea level. The cairn lies on the W slopes of Berry Hill and is sited on a low hill above the N side of the Kelly Glen.

[The map appended to the scheduling document places this monument at NS c. 2142 6844, about 100m N of the Kelly Burn.]

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 25 March 2011.

The location indicated by Historic Scotland is accepted. That formerly entered falls just N of the Kelly Burn.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 June 2011.

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