Clyde Tomb by Edinchip
The Clyde Tomb of Edinchip , about 2.0 km southwest of Lochearnhead , ( Scottish Gaelic Ceann Loch Èireann ) at Strathyre, is the easternmost Clyde Tomb in Perthshire , Scotland . It is in the woods west of Loch Earn , on a terrace on a hillside, about 30 meters west of the disused Callander-Oban railway line and the old military road from Stirling to Fort William .
The expanded north-east-south-west oriented Cairn has a total length of 56.0 m, the ends are about 2.0 m high and 16.0 m wide. Around the middle, the destruction has reduced its height to around 1.0 m and its width to 13.0 m. Later enclosures and the walls of a homestead were built in the cairn and mutilated it. At the southwest end there is a boulder measuring 2.1 × 1.2 m, which could have been a curb. On the south side is another large boulder near the northeast end. At this end there are two chambers, with the approximately 2.0 m long east chamber being separated from the west chamber by a thin broken plate. The access to the east chamber is between two stones 0.75 m apart. The west chamber measures 1.5 square meters and is slightly inclined to the east. It consists of massive side plates that end 0.6 m above the chamber floor and are covered by a capstone that is inclined at an angle of 45 degrees. The east chamber is the center of what appears to be a V-shaped exedra . Four broken, upright stone slabs can be seen on its southern half. Another loose plate may indicate the position of the north side.
About 5.0 m southwest of the main chamber are the side panels of another chamber. Three overlapping plates (one of which appears to be a ledge) lie on the north side and a large broken plate, probably the end plate, lies on the east side. Other offset plates could be part of a capstone. About 7.0 m southwest of it are two thinner slabs, almost at right angles to each other, probably the remains of another side chamber. In addition, the area is disturbed by later activities.
literature
- James L. Davidson, Audrey S. Henshall: A Neolithic chambered long cairn at Edinchip, Perthshire. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 113, 1983, pp. 35-39, ( digital version (PDF; 532 KB) ).
- Jack G. Scott: The Clyde Cairns of Scotland. In: Glyn Daniel, Poul Kjærum (Ed.): Megalithic graves and ritual. Papers presented at the III Atlantic Colloquium, Moesgård 1969 (= Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskabs skrifter. 11). Gyldendalske Boghandel (in comm.), Copenhagen 1973, ISBN 87-00-08861-7 , pp. 117–128.
Web links
- Entry on Clyde Tomb by Edinchip in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- Description Engl. and pictures
Coordinates: 56 ° 22 ′ 2.7 ″ N , 4 ° 18 ′ 31.2 ″ W.