Roofing-slabs and back-slab from SSW
SC 375371
Description Roofing-slabs and back-slab from SSW
Date 1984
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 375371
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 15377
Scope and Content Chambered cairn at Nether Largie South, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute Now rather denuded, Nether Largie South remains an impressive example of Neolithic tomb-building, with Bronze Age alterations. The cairn covers a rectangular burial chamber, aligned north-east to south-west, sub-divided into four smaller compartments. From the exterior the large slabs which formed the roof and back of the chamber are plainly visible. Cairn-architecture like this belongs to a type known as 'Clyde Cairns'. In his excavations of 1864, the Rev. W Greenwell found burnt and unburnt human bone, flint tools, as well as sherds of pottery in the cairn. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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