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Latitude: 56.1788 / 56°10'43"N
Longitude: -5.4353 / 5°26'7"W
OS Eastings: 186877
OS Northings: 703771
OS Grid: NM868037
Mapcode National: GBR DDYD.53H
Mapcode Global: WH0HK.GYZN
Entry Name: Ford,cairn 60m E of Forestry Houses
Scheduled Date: 18 November 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5442
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Kilmartin
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of a prehistoric cairn situated in a pasture field 60m to the E of the Forestry Houses in Ford.
Subcircular on plan, the cairn measures about 8m in diameter and 0.7m in height and has been slightly quarried on the NW arc.
The area to be scheduled measures 50m in diameter, centred on the cairn, to include an area around in which traces of activities associated with the use and construction of the cairn may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to provide information about Bronze Age burial and social practice and because of its probable relationship with similar or related monuments in the immediate vicinity of Ford and in the area of Kilmartin as a whole, which is internationally renowned for both the quantity and quality of such remains.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NM 80 SE 27.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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