Dumbarton Muir

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Dumbarton Muir

Dumbarton Muir (also called Dumbartonmuir, Gallangad Burn or The Lang Cairn) is located in Auchencarroch, east of Balloch in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland and is an approximately 185 m long Clyde Tomb .

The south-west-north-east oriented Clyde Tomb is about 1.8 m high on the facade side - although the height behind the facade was increased by additional stones a few years ago - about 15.0 m wide and gradually tapers towards the narrow, rounded west end . Holes were made in the cairn in several places . Several small panels, particularly along the western north side, may belong to an enclosure that lies within the current edge of the cairn. At the end of the façade of the stone hill is a façade made of orthostats with dry masonry in between . The 1.8 m high stone at the most prominent point was erected again around 1960. Previously lying on the forecourt, it was set up at its base. In the middle of the facade there are two pairs of portal stones. Behind the facade is the only compartment of a chamber at an angle to the axis, which is now covered. It is unknown what structure lay between the chamber compartment and the portal stones.

  • Dumbarton Muir
  • The Lang Cairn, forecourt area - geograph.org.uk - 1081513.jpg
  • The Lang Cairn, possible fallen facade stone - geograph.org.uk - 1081522.jpg

  • Outline sketch of Clyde Tombs

  • The Lang Cairn, small cairn near western end - geograph.org.uk - 1081540.jpg
  • The Lang Cairn, view from western end - geograph.org.uk - 1081526.jpg

About 20 m behind the facade, part of a side chamber is exposed. Another side chamber existed 15 m further west. An approximately 0.3 m thick 1.35 m long plate is visible. A depression indicates that the stone formed the east side of a chamber.

There is a plate near the west end on the axis of the cairn. Their upper edge is flush with the cairn material. A smaller plate north of it can belong to an enclosure.

A pavement made of flat slabs fills the forecourt. On top was a layer of rounded stones like those that made up the pile of stones. These stones were returned to the hill behind the facade when the great stone was raised again. This layer was likely an intentional blocking of access.

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.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 0 ′ 5.7 "  N , 4 ° 28 ′ 27.6"  W.