Looking N.
The cairn is 18m long.
In the distance is Loch Lomond and its surrounding hills.
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Looking E from the rear of the cairn.
In the distance are the Kilpatrick Hills with the Whangie at the highest point on the ridge.
The two portal stones. The upright one is 1.3m high.
There is some evidence of a chamber behind these stones but it is now hidden by vegetation.
Viewed from the S.
The stone built into the wall is thought to be one of the portal stones. A blocking stone at right angles to it sits on the other side.
Looking SW.
This may look like the front of the chamber with the portal stones visible but it is more probably the backstones which are shown and the capstone has slipped backwards
Reconstructed ring cairn showing the earliest of a number of phases extending over 500 years.
Stone ring 21m across with a circle of posts 1.7m from the outer edge.
The cairn Boncyn Arian (which also had an interesting development history) is in the background.
Is this Circle 278?
See Forum topic for this site.
Perhaps the next person up there could check it out.
There is a small cairn circle to the left – shown in more detail in the next image.
N chamber viewed from behind the E portal stone. The stone to its left is a side stone to the first compartment of the chamber.
The NE edge of the cairn showing the well-preserved half of the facade and cairn edging along the E.
The two-compartment E chamber showing the portal stones and a slight curvature in from the cairn edge which the excavator took as evidence that this once stood alone in a round cairn before the whole site was incorporated in a long cairn.
General view over the site from the W. Arran is in the background, right.
The site comprises two chambers in the N and E with a cist added later in the W. The cairn has been reduced on the S side and was probably originally 17m diameter.
W side of cairn.
A later cist can be seen in the foreground.
Above it are the remains of the N chamber but it is difficult to reconcile with the published plans. Some of the stones viewed face on could be side stones of the chamber but there are too many of them.
This is where the E chamber should be.
It had twin portal stones, the southerly of the pair probably being the upright and fallen stone just off centre in the foreground.
The S side of the tomb taken with a long zoom from the shore below.
A slipped capstone can be seen.
The stone furthest to the right is one of three stones which once stood here. If they were part of a forecourt it would be V-shaped rather than the usual crescent shape but V-shaped courts are known to exist eg at Kindrochet.
Looking S with the Kyles of Bute and Arran in the background.
The portal stones and the side stones of the first compartment are shown.
Looking E from the rear of the chamber.
The total chamber length was 3m divided into two compartments of equal length. The dividing sill stone and the N side of the inner compartment are no longer visible.
Looking W down the chamber from the entrance. The two portal stones can be seen in the middle of the picture in front of two side stones of the first compartment.
The S portal stone (on the left) is 0.7m high and the first compartment is 1.5m long.
