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Auchengaich

Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)

Site Name Auchengaich

Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)

Alternative Name(s) Glen Fruin

Canmore ID 41402

Site Number NS28NE 11

NGR NS 27523 89531

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Rhu
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

Archaeology Notes

NS28NE 11 2752 8953

See also NS28NE 1.

NS 275 897. A turf-covered mound c. 60' in diameter by 5' high stands on the flat haugh-land at the N end of Glen Fruin. A cross-section was cut into it, revealing a cist, filled almost to the top with a mass of burnt bones, at approximately its centre, set into the old ground surface. On top of the cist was a cover slab, sealed by a layer of clay. Over this was a cairn of boulders and earth, and finally a capping of clay.

Traces of a shallow ditch, apparently centred on the cist, were found at either end of the cross-section. At the S end, just inside the ditch, was a post-hole. The ditch, however, had been deliberately filled with rammed clay and stones soon after it was dug, and part of the filling overlay the post-hole. A boulder kerb seemed to have completed the mound, but most of the stones had been displaced before the excavation. The mound and burials probably date to the Middle Bronze Age, between 1500 and 1200 BC.

J G Scott 1967

NS 2752 8953. Generally as described. This cairn stands to a height of 2.0m with traces of a kerb visible on the NW side.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (IA) 20 March 1973

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Field Visit (August 1977)

NS 275 895. On the valley floor near the head of Glen Fruin there is a cairn 1.5m high and 18.3m in diameter. Excavation showed that it covered a ring-ditch. A cist containing burnt bones was found central to both the cairn and the ring-ditch.

RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977

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