<< Our Photo Pages >> Port Charlotte - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Isle of Islay
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Port CharlotteCountry: Scotland County: Isle of Islay Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Bridgend Nearest Village: Port Charlotte
Map Ref: NR2482957613 Landranger Map Number: 60
Latitude: 55.733497N Longitude: 6.384965W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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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Neolithic Chambered Cairn
The first people living on this site were Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who arrived soon after the ice age, 10,000 years ago. They lived by hunting deer, otters and wildfowl, by fishing and by gathering an assortment of shellfish and plant foods. Many of their temporary campsites and discarded stone tools have been discovered on Islay.
About five thousand years ago Neolithic people arrived. They herded animals and may have cultivated crops, but their settlements have not yet been discovered on Islay. We know they lived here though because they built elaborate and sophisticated monuments such as this chambered cairn in which they buried their dead.
Canmore: https://canmore.org.uk/site/37313/islay-port-charlotte
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