06/06/2018 – Easy parking on the north side of Kames Bay (layby marked parking and picnic area on OS map)
Take the track towards Hilton farm. It’s waymarked as it’s part of the West Island Way. As the track turns left to Hilton, continue straight on up the hill on a small path. Cairn is in the field to your right but you have to pass a lot of gorse. Best to head up higher than the cairn and then once past the gorse head right and then back down a little to the cairn. No problems really.
The location for this one is great. Impressive views across Kames Bay and beyond. The cairn hasn’t fared well over the years though. Lots of stones left but hard to figure out what’s going on. Chamber can be made out and there is a Bronze Age cist in it as well. Bedrock (for want of a better word) has been incorporated into the cairn.
Maybe not the best chambered cairn on Bute but the location is worth the walk. I liked it.
Canmore mention a possible cup marked rock 25m W of the cairn. Very faint marking so I wasn’t so sure.
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