Torrylin Cairn
Torrylin Cairn is the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb found near Kilmory on the Isle of Arran in Buteshire.
Description
- Location map: 55°26’27"N, 5°14’2"W
- Streetmap: NR95532108
Torrylin Cairn is situated beside Kilmory Water just south of the hamlet of Lagg.[1]
The cairn has been interfered with by stone robbing and later dumping of field stones and its original shape and size are uncertain.[2] The chamber is 22 feet long by about 4 feet wide with each compartment about 5 feet long.[2] Torrylin Cairn is of a type found across the region known as a 'Clyde cairn', of which a better preserved example can be found at Carn Ban, about three miles to the north-east.[1] The tomb would probably have had a crescent-shaped forecourt, framed by a façade of slender upright stones.[1]
Antiquarian excavations in the 19th century uncovered an elongated burial chamber, divided into four compartments.[1] Only the innermost compartment was intact. It contained the remains of six adults, a child and an infant.[1] Beside them lay a flint tool and a fragment of pottery.[1]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Torrylin Cairn) |
- Torrylin,chambered long cairn - scheduled monument detail (Historic Environment Scotland)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Torrylin Cairn, Historic Scotland, accessed 2 May 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Torrylin
