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<< Text Pages >> Cladh Aindreis - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Argyll

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cladh Aindreis
Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Chambered Cairn

Map Ref: NM547708  Landranger Map Number: 39
Latitude: 56.764016N  Longitude: 6.015447W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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3 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
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Chambered Cairn in Argyll. This Clyde-type chambered cairn is situated on a terrace on the E bank of the Allt Sordail at a point some 500m N of Swordle.

Aligned NW and SE, it measures about 47m in length, tapers in width from about 30m at its SE end to 6m at the NW end, and stands to a height of 0.5m. It has, however, not only been severely robbed to provide material for walls, but has also had field-gathered stones added to it, particularly at the SE end, and for these reasons its present shape is little guide to its original appearance.

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Note: Open day for excavations at the Neolithic Chambered Cairn of Cladh Aindreis, Sunday 22nd August
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A tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan by Andy B on Friday, 14 July 2017
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Assembling places and persons: a tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, western Scotland

A rare, intact Viking boat burial in western Scotland contained a rich assemblage of grave
goods, providing clues to the identity and origins of both the interred individual and
the people who gathered to create the site. The burial evokes the mundane and the exotic, past and present, as well as local, national and international identities. Isotopic analysis of the teeth hints at a possible Scandinavian origin for the deceased, while Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian connections are attested by the grave goods. Weapons indicate a warrior of high status; other jects imply connections to daily life, cooking and work, farming and food production. The burial site is itself rich in symbolic associations, being close to a Neolithic burial cairn, the stones of which may have been incorporated into the grave.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/77752CA983D55D191B702EC081941CD4/S0003598X16002222a.pdf/div-class-title-assembling-places-and-persons-a-tenth-century-viking-boat-burial-from-swordle-bay-on-the-ardnamurchan-peninsula-western-scotland-div.pdf
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Arnamurchan Transitions Project Excavations by Andy B on Tuesday, 17 August 2010
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Ardnamurchan Transitions Project
Excavations at Cladh Aindreis, Swordle Bay

Of the few sites from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age on the peninsula, the chambered tomb of Cladh Aindreis has been identified by the project as potentially significant for a number of reasons. It has received little prior work, however it was visited and surveyed by Henshall in the late 1960s, along with the other two Neolithic chambered tombs on the peninsula of Greadal Fhinn and Camas nan Geall. Henshall tentatively recorded the cairn as of Clyde type. However Henshall herself was able only to undertake basic survey work, which noted the irregular cairn shape, and suggested that this had been subject to some modification over time. She also noted the presence of shells emerging from a rabbit hole in the side of the cairn.

Within Argyll and Bute at least two other chambered tombs appear to have been built upon earlier shell midden deposits (Crarae and Glecknabae), and a number of people have suggested that the practice of shell midden accumulation in the later Mesolithic may have acted as a precursor for the building of chambered tombs in the Neolithic (Cummings 2003, Pollard 2000). As a result we would like to investigate the relationship between the cairn and any earlier shell deposits. Furthermore, many chambered tombs in Scotland, as well as the British Isles, have provided ample evidence of later Bronze Age reuse of such monuments. As such Cladh Aindreis has been selected as a site which may potentially provide us with information about all of the critical periods and transitions that the project hopes to investigate.

http://sites.google.com/site/ardnamurchantransitionsproject/cladhaindreis,swordlebay

Transitions And Transformations: Investigations Into The Prehistory Of The Ardnamurchan Peninsula

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past54/past54.html

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Arnamurchan Transitions Project Excavation Open Day by Andy B on Tuesday, 17 August 2010
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Arnamurchan Transitions Project Excavation Open Day

"Sunday 22nd August, 10am-4pm"
Location:
“Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan, NM 5470 7076”

Excavations at the Neolithic Chambered Cairn of Cladh Aindreis and the cleared village, now Coldstream Cottages, both in Swordle Bay, Ardnamurcan will continue in 2010. An open day for public visits will take place on Sunday 22nd of August between 10am and 4pm. All welcome, please wear sturdy footwear.

http://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/?q=node/2334

Scottish Archaeology Month 2010
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