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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kilmore Cairn
Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Oban  Nearest Village: Kilmore
Map Ref: NM88172533
Latitude: 56.372680N  Longitude: 5.431827W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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
 5

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Kilmore Cairn
Kilmore Cairn submitted by caradoc68 : There are there are three cairns in this field, with nine within Kilmore. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Argyll

This severely robbed cairn measures 13.7 metres in diameter and 1.3 metres in height.
RCAHMS 1975
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A Mesolithic site at Kilmore, near Oban, western Scotland by Andy B on Monday, 16 February 2015
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A Mesolithic site at Kilmore, near Oban, western Scotland [2009] by Clive Bonsall, Robert Payton, Mark G. Macklinand Graham A. Ritchie

The Kilmore site. Discovered in 1994, the site at Kilmore (56° 22'21" N, 5° 25' 53" W) occupies a colluvial foot-slope position marginal to a peat-filled basin. The basin originated as a depression in glacio-fluvial sands and gravels which was subsequently accentuated by the formation of a shingle ridge or spit at its western edge around the time of the maximum of the Main Postglacial Transgression (5500–5900 cal BC) when sea level was c.10 m higher than today. At that time the basin may have formed a brackish water lagoon behind the shingle spit, fed by a small stream which enters from the northeast.

The Mesolithic shell midden sites found around Oban Bay and elsewhere along the coast of western Scotland were at one time thought to represent a distinct ‘Obanian’ culture. The proposition that these sites were in fact special-purpose camps, associated with unidentified base camps, was tested as part of the Oban Archaeological Project. The factors assumed to have influenced the location of the base camps were modelled and, subsequently, two open-air Mesolithic sites were identified – at Kilmore near the head of Loch Feochan, and Lón Mór at the head of the Oban embayment – both occupying sheltered, near-shoreline positions close to permanent sources of fresh water.

Archaeological and pedological investigations of the Kilmore site have allowed a sequence of environmental and anthropogenic events to be reconstructed. The stratified remains of at least two phases of occupation associated with buried land surfaces were identified. A chipped stone assemblage comprising both flint and quartz artefacts was recovered, notable for the presence of Late Mesolithic ‘narrow blade’ microliths and an unusually high percentage of bipolar cores. An age younger than that of the highest Postglacial shoreline is suggested for the Mesolithic occupation.
https://www.academia.edu/297355/A_Mesolithic_site_at_Kilmore_near_Oban_western_Scotland_2009_
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