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Barmore Wood

Inveraray, Argyll

Large image (801x620 - 132k) In the foreground are the side slabs of the northeastern chamber. In the centre background are the stones of the southwestern chamber.
Large image (842x648 - 214k) The side slabs of the northeastern chamber, looking east.
Large image (843x648 - 102k) The stones of the southwestern chamber, looking to the northwest.
Large image (827x656 - 89k) One of the stones of the southwestern chamber.
Large image (579x575 - 133k) The back stone of the southwestern chamber.
Large image (679x632 - 116k) The stones of the southwestern chamber, looking south.
Large image (743x622 - 105k) One of the portal stones of the southwestern chamber, looking west.
Large image (842x648 - 146k) Another stone of the southwestern chamber.
Large image (842x648 - 136k) One of the portal stones of the southwestern chamber, looking east.
Large image (642x640 - 69k) The backstone of the southwestern chamber.

This chambered long cairn stands on a low rocky knoll in what was a forestry commission plantation, although the trees have been recently cleared.

Although almost all the cairn material has been robbed away, it is thought that the cairn would have originally been about one hundred feet long running northeast-southwest with a chamber at each end.

The two chambers were excavated between 1963 and 1965, before the forest was planted. Three megaliths of the southwest chamber remain, indicating that the chamber was about 14 feet long. The side slabs of the northeast chamber remain, and that would have been about 17 feet by 3 feet in floor area.

Both chambers were divided into an inner and outer portion. The rim of a neolithic pot and some other small finds were discovered in the northeastern chamber, and part of a flint knife was found in the southwestern chamber.

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