Mid Gleniron
Mid Gleniron I and II is a Clyde Tomb- type multiple megalithic complex that was excavated between 1963 and 1966. It is located in The Machars near New Luce, east of Stranraer in Wigtownshire , in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
description
A 21 m long approximately north-south oriented cairn of the type Clyde Tomb covers two round hills (of which at least one Bargrennan Tomb ), so that a multi-period construction is present.
Initially, a 0.6 m high, small oval cairn (about ten meters in diameter) of the Bargrennan type with a rectangular chamber and access to the north was erected. A second cairn, also with a rectangular chamber and access to the north, was erected in the immediate vicinity of the first one (which was presumably out of use). An exedra made of orthostats and dry stone masonry flanked the entrance to the northern cairn and was immediately or only a little later part of the final construction, which unites the two round mounds in a slightly trapezoidal long mound (12 m × 11 m) of the Clyde tomb cairns type. Next, a side chamber was built in the west between the two old round hills. The chambers (without cap stones) have largely been preserved.
Apart from the end neolithic finds, nine cremations in urns were found in the mound material . The finds are in the Dumfries Museum , where the archive of the German amateur archaeologist Werner Kissling (1895–1988) is also located.
Nearby is the Bargrennan Tomb Caves of Kilhern .
literature
- JXWP Corcoran: Excavation of two chambered cairns at Mid Gleniron Farm, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, In: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 3rd, vol. 46 1969 pp. 33-56 and 84-90
Web links
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- Entry on Mid Gleniron in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 38.5 " N , 4 ° 49 ′ 48.4" W.