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Text Pages: Loch Earn - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
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Submitted by Nick on Monday, 03 November 2003 Page Views: 4503
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 Site Name: Loch Earn Alternative Name: Kindrochet
Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Lochearnhead Nearest Village: St Fillians
Map Ref: NN723230 Landranger Map Number: 51
Latitude: 56.381980N Longitude: 4.069683W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Off the A85 just before St Fillans, park beside the two cottages at Kindrochet (south side of the road), and ask at the second cottage - the man who lives there is very friendly (as are his dogs!) and will explain how to approach the chambered cairn if the bull is in a nearby field. Approaching from Dundurn farm is more difficult. Kindrochet Chambered Cairn is now in considerable disarray, but still well worth a look. Measuring around 130 feet by 30 feet, many of the internal features are still discernible even amongs the scatter of rubble and field clearance. The view to the west showed Dundurn hill clearly in the background, and it was easy to see why this site had been chosen. I took a number of photographs, but none of them really gives a great impression of this very peaceful place. Looking west along the length of the cairn gives a clear view of Dundurn hill fort. According to Canmore, it was excavated by Childe in 1929 and 1930, when it was found to be made of large water-worn boulders and to measure 135ft by a greatest width 36ft within a kerb embedded in virgin soil. Laid out with the long axis E and W, it contained three cists. The central cist contained a leaf-shaped arrowhead.
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