Stone boxes from Cnoc-an-teallaidh
The stone boxes of Cnoc-an-teallaidh are west of Ri Cruin , southwest of Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .
The three stone boxes of Cnoc-an-teallaidh were discovered or destroyed during gravel excavations. One was smashed by an excavator, but the large capstone with 70 bowls survived. A lot of human bones, mostly cremated, were found in the gravel cave where the grave had been. A few paces north was a short box containing a crouched burial and a mug. To the south of this box was a 1.35 m long stone box with a vessel.
About 300 m to the north is the 1.3 × 0.6 × 0.75 m stone box from Bruach-na-cuirte on the edge of a steep slope. No finds were made in the box that was open at the side. One or two pits with short plates were found adjacent to the cover on the level above.
The stone boxes from Poltalloch are nearby .
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 , pp. 38-40
- Marion Campbell, Mary LS Sandeman: Mid Argyll: A field survey of the historic and prehistoric monuments. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 95, 1961/1962, ISSN 0081-1564 , pp. 1–125, here pp. 74–75, ( (PDF; 5.95 MB) ).
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Coordinates: 56 ° 7 ′ 8.5 " N , 5 ° 30 ′ 23.6" W.