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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cladh an Diseirt - Cairn in Scotland in Argyll

Submitted by hamish on Sunday, 14 May 2006  Page Views: 4961

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cladh an Diseirt
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.223 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Argyll Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Oban  Nearest Village: Iona Township
Map Ref: NM28842475
Latitude: 56.337216N  Longitude: 6.389143W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Cladh an Diseirt
Cladh an Diseirt submitted by hamish : You can see from this photo' the stone was used as a post for sheep fencing. The weather was great, 22-23 degrees in May. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Argyll

Walk along the road from the Abbey towards Duchess Cross. Just before the cross, on the right through the tussocks near the sea, is this cairn.
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Cladh an Diseirt
Cladh an Diseirt submitted by AngieLake : This photo was featured in a National Geographic magazine* article. A comment on the site page explains that a crofter found it here in 1870. https://collections.historicenvironment.scot/objects/177. *It may have been a 2011 edition, but I neglected to notice properly the date or the photographer while ripping it out before it got thrown away. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cladh an Diseirt
Cladh an Diseirt submitted by hamish : Looking North East towards Mull. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cladh an Diseirt
Cladh an Diseirt submitted by hamish : Looking back towards the Abbey. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cladh an Diseirt
Cladh an Diseirt submitted by hamish : Looking towards Mull. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cladh an Diseirt
Cladh an Diseirt submitted by hamish : This is the first sight you have of the Cairn. It is beautifully sited not far from Port an Diseirt. (1 comment)

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Re: Cladh an Diseirt St Columba's Pillow by AngieLake on Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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The stone with an engraved cross known as St Columba's Pillow was found at this site, according to the following info:

"Popularly known as St Columba's Pillow, this water-worn boulder with a ringed cross carved onto it was found by a crofter in 1870 at Clanh an Dìsirt (about a kilometer NE of Iona abbey). Frustrated that his cartwheel constantly hit the stone, he dug it up. It became known as ‘Columba’s Pillow’ – the stone that St Columba laid his head each night and which after his death marked his grave. There is no evidence to support this identification and it seems unlikely that Columba would have been buried so far from the abbey. Nonetheless the stone became so famous that in the early 1900s that it was enclosed in a metal cage for safe-keeping."

https://collections.historicenvironment.scot/objects/177
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