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| Name: | Nether Largie South |  |
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| Type: | Chambered Cairn | ||
| NGR: | NR 828979 | ||
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| Description | |
| This is the only chambered cairn of the five in Kilmartin's linear cemetery. Excavations in 1864 revealed evidence for use over perhaps a thousand years. A round-based bowl dates to about 2,500 BC while a Beaker, arrowheads and cists show people used the site differently hundreds of years later. | |
| Looking south west this shows both the cairn and the later satellite cist (top left). Though appearing round in this picture the cairn may one have been trapezoidal in shape and much bigger. The circular boundary is modern. | |
| 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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