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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dunchraigaig Cairn Alternative Name: DuncraigaigCountry: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NR8330796811 Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.114731N Longitude: 5.487062W
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Uralsdaughter visited on 19th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 18th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Dunchcraigaig Cairn: Parking in the small car park opposite the cairn, we crossed (ran over between the cars doing at least 60mph) the busy road to have a look at yet another large, stony cairn (special in its own right, but so many of them around here!). Just as we drew into the car park, a black mini-bus with the name “Tour of the Tor”; we kept coming across this bus and its people a number of times for the next few days. They do ‘sacred tours’ of a number of areas, including Glastonbury and the Celtic Lands. I don’t know where they went, but they didn’t arrive at the cairn until after we’d started on towards the standing stones.
On the way down to the standing stones/stone row at Ballymeanoch, I spotted a smaller cairn to its north eastern side, and another chamber, topped by a large lintel stone on its southern side (note: Canmore says so much material may have been moved from this side of the cairn, it may have been the primary burial).
This was an impressive location, despite its proximity to the busy road.
SandyG visited on 15th Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
coin visited on 1st Jan 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Fantastic - a hare ran from the top of the mound on approach.
SolarMegalith visited on 28th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
custer visited on 13th Oct 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Car park on opposite side of road, good access. Great site.
hidebasket visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
snakefarmer rrmoser AngieLake have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.57 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.71
This Bronze Age burial cairn could have been built in site of the earlier Neolithic monument. A significant amount of human remains were discovered inside the burial chamber in 19th century.
For more information see Canmore ID 39455, which describes the cairn as it is today, together with some observations on the excavations by Mapleton & Greenwell in 1864.
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