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Latitude: 55.4833 / 55°29'0"N
Longitude: -5.5706 / 5°34'14"W
OS Eastings: 174493
OS Northings: 626854
OS Grid: NR744268
Mapcode National: GBR DGM6.WQM
Mapcode Global: WH0LZ.DFLR
Entry Name: Gort na h-Ulaidhe, long cairn 900m NE of Gartgreillan, Glen Lussa
Scheduled Date: 17 November 1964
Last Amended: 20 January 2004
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2484
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn
Location: Campbeltown
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises the remains of a chambered cairn, a burial and ritual monument dating from the Neolithic period (around 3500-3000 BC).
The cairn lies at 150m OD, along the edge of a broad, fairly level shelf high above the Glenlussa Water. The cairn is trapezoidal on plan, elongated E to W and measures 36m long by 10m across the E end and 7m across at the W end. It has been considerably robbed, especially in a hollow which crosses the cairn between 4m and 6.5m behind the chamber, but cairn material survives over the whole site and behind the E chamber stands to approximately 2m high. Four sub-rectangular chambers are set into the cairn, one directly behind the E facade, one about halfway along (opening to the S), one about three-quarters of the way along (apparently running right through the body of the cairn and one near the W end (opening from the N). Six orthostats remain erect along the E facade, including one which forms the N portal stone of the entrance to the E chamber.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is a rectangle 60m E-W by 45m N-S, as shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. Its plan has unusual features, especially a chamber which appears to run from one side cairn through to the other.Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
The monument is recorded by RCAHMS as NR72NW 3.
References:
Henshall A S 1972a, THE CHAMBERED TOMBS OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, Vol. 2, 350.
ORDNANCE SURVEY (NAME BOOK), Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 75, 15.
RCAHMS 1971a, ARGYLL: AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS, VOLUME 1: KINTYRE, Edinburgh, HMSO, 35-6, No. 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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