Carn glass
Carn Glas (also called Mains of Kilcoy) is a more heavily damaged Stalled Cairn or a Passage Tomb of the Orkney-Cromarty type (OC) - Camster subtype; on the western edge of the Black Isle west of Tore in Ross-shire in Scotland .
Excavated by AA Woodham in 1955, the cairn is around 21 meters in diameter. The outer part of the entrance was largely destroyed. The preserved area was approximately 1.2 meters long and 0.7 meters wide. The two-part chamber was about 2.7 m long and 1.2 to 1.5 m wide. Access to each of the boxes is between 0.4 to 0.75 m high transversely placed panels, each with a flat floor panel in between. The chambers are formed by layers of panels.
The relics date from the late Neolithic Age and contain pottery from the bell-cup culture and a leaf-shaped and barbed arrowhead . These seem to come from two consecutive burials or burial seasons with an interval in between.
The cairn, which is now covered with ferns and gorse, is about 1.1 m high. The remaining chamber, 1.0 m deep, is partially filled with rubble.
literature
- The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS): The archaeological sites and monuments of the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region (= The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no 9). Edinburgh 1979, p. 7.
Individual proof
- ↑ In English the name is used almost exclusively in connection with the definite article ("the Black Isle")
Web links
- Entry on Carn Glas in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
- Description (Engl.)
Coordinates: 57 ° 32 '14.1 " N , 4 ° 22' 29.8" W.