<< Image Pages >> Macarthur Cave, Oban - Cave or Rock Shelter in Scotland in Argyll
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Macarthur Cave, ObanCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.583 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Argyll Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Oban
Map Ref: NM85923043
Latitude: 56.417402N Longitude: 5.472353W
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Agryll
Canmore site 23066
The MacArthur Cave has come to be regarded as the type-site of the Obanian culture. It was discovered towards the end of 1894 by quarrymen and was excavated by Anderson in 1895. Removal of the talus and fallen rocks which blocked the entrance revealed a possibly artificial barrier of rocks behind which the infill reached almost to the roof. The great majority of the implements recovered were of bone, 140 of these being found. Some of these are illustrated in the accompanying photographs. Of the stone implements recovered, only eight of flint were definable. Finds are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. An antler barbed point (NMS HL 187) has been dated by radiocarbon to 4750+/- 160 years BC.
During the excavation parts of the skeletons of at least four individuals were discovered. The burials, however, cannot be associated with the mesolithic material from the cave, as they were found on top of and within the thick layer of debris that sealed these deposits. Their date is not known.
In 1964, no traces of the cave could be found.
Text adapted from Canmore.
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