Dunchraigaig Cairn
The Dunchraigaig Cairn is located south of Kilmartin in the Kilmartin Glen in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .
The cairn is 3.0 m high and about 30.0 m in diameter. It dates from the early Bronze Age (around 2000 BC). In 1864, three stone boxes were discovered and excavated. The most unusual box is the southeast box, which is covered by a massive capstone. It contained the remains of about ten people, along with a grindstone , a greenstone ax, and a flint knife .
Nearby are the rock carvings of Baluachcraig, the Ri Cruin -Cairn and the stones of Ballymeanoch .
See also
literature
- The Royal Commission on the Ancient and historical Monuments of Scotland: Kilmartin Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments. An Inventory of the Monuments Extracted from "Argyll, Volume 6" . The Royal Commission on the Ancient and historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-1-902419-03-9 , p. 24
Web links
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Coordinates: 56 ° 6 ′ 52.7 " N , 5 ° 29 ′ 13.8" W.