Port Donian

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Port Donian is a beach about 1000 m south of Lochdon, in the east of the Hebridean island of Mull , in Argyll and Bute in Scotland . It is finding place of Clyde Tombs ( English Chambered Cairn ), a Cairns , a menhir ( English Standing stone ) and a stone box .

description

In a strip of forest above the small bay of Port Donian is the remainder of a Clyde Tomb with a length of about 32.0 m and a width of 11.0 m. Although heavily robbed, the remains of a chamber and a concave exedra are visible at the northeast end , while those of the stone box are at the southwest end. Possible curbs are visible on the southeast and southwest sides. The portal stones and one stone of the facade are in situ . Another stone has fallen. The eastern portal stone is broken into two parts, with the lying stone being the upper part. The western portal stone is 1.4 m high and measures 0.9 × 0.4 m at the base. The north-east-south-west oriented chamber measures around 3.4 m × 0.9 m inside. The two plates on the southeast side and the end stone have been preserved, while the northwest side was completely destroyed.

The small stone box at the southwest end of the Cairn measures 0.6 × 0.4 m inside and is at least 0.4 m deep. It consists of four plates and is partially covered by an oversized capstone, 1.35 m long and 0.9 m wide. A feature of the box is that its stone slabs vary widely in thickness, those of the long sides are 0.4 m thick and the other pair is 0.15 m thick.

About 100 m to the west are the Cairn and the Menhir. The chamber-shaped cairn occupies the highest point of the gently sloping terrain on the Bay of Port Donian. It is a well-preserved curb cairn. It is about 6.1 m in diameter. Although the center appears to be disturbed, it is still 0.5 m high. The tallest surviving curbs on the west side have heights of 0.6 m and 0.45 m, but two fallen stones in the southwest would be erect, about 0.9 m and 0.7 m high.

A large stone near the cairn is about 4.1 m long, 0.6 m wide and 0.5 m thick, and it is likely a fallen menhir. There are menhirs like this on other curb stone Cairns in the area.

literature

  • ER Cregeen: Port Donain, Mull , In: Discovery Excav Scot, 1957 p. 5
  • Roger Martlew, Clive Ruggles: Mull, Glengorm (Kilninian & Kilmore parish), standing stones, flints, pit, cremated bone, clay pipe. In: Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 1987, ISSN  0419-411X , p. 42, ( digital version (PDF; 3.54 MB) ).
  • The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS): Mull, Tiree, Coll Northern Argyll (excluding the Early Medieval later monuments of Iona) (= Report. An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 21 = Argyll . An Inventory of the Acient Monuments. Vol. 3). HMSO, London et al. 1980, ISBN 0-11-491591-1 , p. 68, no. 105 fig. 44.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 24 ′ 4 "  N , 5 ° 40 ′ 6"  W.