This is the northernmost of the five cairns of Kilmartin's linear cemetery. On excavation in 1864 two concentric circles of boulders were discovered with a central cist and another cist in the cairn's centre. One cist contained a Food Vessel and a jet necklace. The other contained a Food Vessel.

The Glebe cairn is now overlooked by the village of Kilmartin, perched on top of the raised beach terrace. This cairn may well have started life as a stone circle before it was adopted as a place of burial and covered in cairn material.

Excavated in 1864 by Greenwell.

On excavation two concentric circles of boulders with a slab-built cist in the centre were discovered within the cairn, and another, probably later, boulder-built cist was found in the centre of the cairn.

Finds:

Slab-built cist

• Food Vessel and a jet necklace

Boulder built cist

• fragmented Food Vessels

• Campbell & Sandeman, 16, no.105
• RCAHMS Argyll vol 6 no. 62
• PSAS 6 (1864-6) p339-41
• PSAS 95 (1961-2) p16 no. 105