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Dunchraigaig Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll

Large image (498x750 - 154k) Looking east on the top of the cairn. The large rectangular slab in the foreground is the capstone of a cist.
Large image (495x750 - 148k) Looking west on the top of the cairn. The burial space beneath the capstone can be seen, as can a flat edge of the slab forming the near wall of the cist.
Large image (498x750 - 119k) Stones around the cist on the top of the cairn.
Large image (850x564 - 128k) The cairn from the south.
Large image (850x564 - 133k) The cairn from the southwest. A second burial space is very obvious in the near side of the cairn.
Large image (850x564 - 149k) A closer view from the west.
Large image (498x750 - 137k) Another view from the west.

Although greatly robbed, this is still an impressive cairn. It is about 30 metres in diameter and 2.5 metres in height. Two burial cists are visible and a third is known but hidden by replaced cairn material.

Cremated bones, flints, an axe and pottery were found in a 19th century excavation as well as a crouched burial beneath the paved floor of the cairn.

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