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| Name: | Nether Largie South |  |
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| Type: | Chambered Cairn | ||
| NGR: | NR 828979 | ||
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| Description | |
| Excavations in 1864 cairn showed a complex sequence in the use and reuse of this cairn. The chamber's 4 compartments were constructed of drystone walls and massive slabs. Finds included a round-based Neolithic bowl, unburnt bones, a cist, fragments of a Bronze Age Beaker, quartz pebbles and five arrowheads. | |
| The cairn's entrance, shown here, faces NE. There are two tall portal stones and the entrance is still partly blocked by slabs and drystone walling. | |
| Excavation Details | |
| The site was excavated by Greenwell in 1864. | |
| Two secondary cists were found, one is still visible 8m from the chamber, and consists of four massive slabs and capstone. | |
| Finds Rear compartment - small cist consisting of four slabs, capstone and basal slab with probably related sherds of Beaker pottery and bones - cremation deposit on a slab - pavement of small pebbles in centre with cremated bones, five barbed and tanged arrowheads, various flint implements, a bovine tooth and quartz pebbles underneath - second pebble pavement with Beaker fragment and round-based vessel Third compartment - cremated bones on pebble pavement - pottery sherds of three Beakers, urn fragments - human and bovine bones Outer compartment - unburnt bones, pottery and two flints |
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| Associated finds on display at Kilmartin House museum | |
| Access / Ownership | |
| Cared for by Historic Scotland, free access via adjacent road. | |
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