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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 September 2010  Page Views: 3927

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ardvreck
Country: Scotland County: Sutherland Type: Chambered Cairn

Map Ref: NC24142371
Latitude: 58.167124N  Longitude: 4.991314W
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.
5 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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markj99 visited on 28th Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Ardvreck Chambered Cairn lies c. 250 yards NE of Ardvreck Castle. Therein lies the problem. Thousands of people walk past an anonymous grass mound transfixed by its more attractive companion. I myself was guilty of this on my first visit. It was only on my second visit to Ardvreck that I targeted the cairn using its grid reference.

Ardvreck
Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Looking NW from the summit of Arvreck Chambered Cairn to the summit of Spidean Coinich. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Sutherland

The cairn, now much ruined and turf-covered, measures 49 ft 6 ins E-W by 36 ft 6 ins transversely and 5 ft high. Only the inner- most compartment of the chamber, and the inner septal slab, can be seen in the centre of the cairn. The entrance passage, 4 ft long, was from the E. The rectangular chamber was 9 ft 2 ins long by 2 ft 11 ins wide at the E end, widening to 3 ft 4 ins at the W end, and was divided into three compartments. Excavated by Cree in 1925 (not published).

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Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Ardvreck Chambered Cairn viewed from SE looking towards Quinag. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardvreck
Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Excavated Chamber of Ardvreck Chambered Cairn viewed from W. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Excavated Chamber of Ardvreck Chambered Cairn viewed from S. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardvreck
Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Excavated Chamber of Ardvreck Chambered Cairn viewed from E. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardvreck
Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Ardvreck Chambered Cairn viewed from SE looking towards Quinag. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ardvreck submitted by markj99 : Ardvreck Chambered Cairn.

Ardvreck Castle
Ardvreck Castle submitted by andy_h : History Gallery Ardvreck Castle, Sutherland, Scotland.

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The Neolithic Chambered cairns of Assynt by Andy B on Sunday, 28 August 2011
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The chambered cairns in Assynt are uncharacteristically
high; surviving to heights of between 1.5 and 3
m. This implies that whilst some stone robbing clearly
took place, mainly in antiquity, the scale of destruction
observable elsewhere in Scotland may not have been
replicated in the Assynt area. This may be related to
the absence of industrial-scale farming from the area.

The chambered cairn at Ardvreck is of the type designated
by Henshall as ‘Clyde Cairns’ and all of the
others are varieties of her Orkney-Cromarty class of
relatively simple passage graves. The term ‘passage
grave’ is used to describe one of the two fundamental
classes of megalithic structure and passage graves
are characterised by having distinct passages that lead
to the main chamber in the cairn.

In the Sutherland
cairns, the passage leads to an ante-chamber which,
in turn gives access to the main chamber. Structurally,
the weakest point in a passage grave lies at the intersection
of passage and corbelled chamber because
the great weight of the densely-built, corbelled core
cairn must be carried over the void of the passage.
In all of the Assynt group of chambered cairns in which
the evidence survives, it is clear that the core cairns
were corbelled. Indeed the high survival rate for corbels
is an index of how relatively well preserved these
monuments are.

In Sutherland and Caithness, the relieving
structures used to carry this weight of the corbelled
core-cairn over the passage have evolved into
the compact and very strongly constructed ante chamber.
For this reason they are particularly interesting for
studies in Neolithic engineering.

Chambered cairns
Monument name, HLP No, Henshall No.
Loch Borralan East 5, SUT 43
Loch Borralan West 12, SUT 44 Ledmore 17, SUT40
[Lyne] Ledbeg River 33, SUT 46
Knockan [West] 108, SUT 80
Knockan [East] 109, SUT 79
Allt Sgiathaig 117, SUT 8
Carrachan Dubh Inchnadamph 139, SUT 82
Ardvreck 146, SUT 9
[Loch Borralan South] Altnacealgach 2, SUT 81

The names or name elements in square brackets are the monument names used by Henshall & Ritchie (1995)

Extract from Assynt's Hidden Lives final report, page 13 onwards
http://www.aocarchaeology.com/assynt/PDF/HiddenLives_web.pdf
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