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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cairnbane (Portnacroish)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.259 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Argyll Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Village: Portnacroish
Map Ref: NM926473
Latitude: 56.571680N Longitude: 5.377704W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Chambered Cairn in Argyll
This chambered cairn, which has now been destroyed, used to be found on the 'north side of Loch Laich, opposite Castle Stalker'. The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) gives a brief 'archaeology and history' of the cairn, which used to have 'several subterraneous apartments, the passages leading to them supported by large beams of timber in some places, in others by large stones'. See the TNA page for Cairnbane, Portnacroish,Argyll.
This site also has a listing on Canmore ID 23301, which records a field visit from 2006: "NM 925 473 In the summer of 2006 a search was carried out by the Appin Historical Society for the site of this chambered cairn, clearly described by Pococke and others in the 18th century as being on the N side of Loch Laich and opposite Castle Stalker. This must be close to Portnacroish and the only plausible remains found in this area consist of a flat rubble platform about 100m W of the row of houses, just before the road turns sharply NE and up a steep hill. The elongated platform is at least 30m long from NW–SE and only its SW edge is clearly visible (for about 33m) where the ground falls away. There are no visible traces of any large slabs which might have been part of a chamber. The ruins of a stone cottage and its outbuilding stand on the platform.!
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