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| Name: | Upper Largie |  |
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| Type: | Cists (several) | ||
| NGR: | NR 831993 | ||
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| Description | |
| The site consisted of four cists and four other features (two of which may have been cists) which were situated on the summit of a gravel terrace near Kilmartin. Out of these one cist was repositioned after excavation but was later partly covered by a layby and is now largely overgrown, and the other cists are no longer apparent. | |
| Excavation Details | |
| A magnetometer survey and trial excavation was carried out on the site in 1982-3 by the Central Excavation Unit, Historic Buildings and Monuments: Scottish Development Department. This was necessary due to the threat to the site by gravel extraction. Further work was undertaken in 1983. | |
| Cist 1 Measured 1.25m by 0.7m and 0.7m deep and consisted of four large slabs and a massive capstone. Cist 2 Measured 0.9m by 0.5m and 0.5m deep and consisted of four large slabs with a large cover slab and basal slab. The gaps between the basal slab and the side and end-slabs had been filled with cobbling. There were no burial deposits. Cist 3 Measured 0.35m by 0.27m and 0.24m deep and had been set in a pit filled with boulders, there was no capstone. Finds - charcoal and burnt bone, the remains of an urn containing a cremation and a plano-convex knife was found nearby. The other features included a shallow pit which contained charcoal and fragments of cremated bone, pottery sherds and burnt stones. |
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| Access / Ownership | |
| This site is on private land and permission should be sought. | |
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