Clyde Tomb from Port Charlotte
The Clyde Tomb of Port Charlotte is located southwest of Port Charlotte on the west side of Loch Indaal on the Hebridean island of Islay in Scotland , near the beach on a campsite.
It was severely disturbed and probably completely eroded on the south side. The stone material lies unevenly in piles up to 0.9 m high. The margins once set are mostly indeterminate. The remaining length and width are about 22.0 m. Excavations in 1976 confirmed the location of the exedra on the northeast side and a gallery with four chambers. There was a 0.6 m deep pit in front of the entrance. The cairn consisted of an inner core of solid plates, covered and were partially covered by solid rock, after which the whole of the small pebbles was covered. On the back of the chamber was an older flint litter with around 2000 chips, mixed with charcoal. The surrounding dry stone walls were double walls and on the east and west sides were 1.0 to 1.5 m wide and 0.7 m high. A stepped stone mound, which, according to radiocarbon dates, dates to before 2650 BC. BC is likely.
The only human bones were discovered in the second chamber along with charcoal. The small finds from the chamber include flint knives , three leaf-shaped arrowheads and shards of five vessels. A flat-convex flint knife was found on the forecourt. Earlier horizons, under the cairn, contained charred flint chips, hazelnut shells, several scrapers, and sheep bones. Their radiocarbon dates were between 3070 and 2710 BC. Chr.
literature
- 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.
- Jörg Lindenbeck: Investigations into late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave forms in south-west Scotland. In: Archaeological Information . Vol. 11, No. 2, 1988, pp. 228-232.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 44 '0.7 " N , 6 ° 23' 5.8" W.