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Latitude: 56.4823 / 56°28'56"N
Longitude: -5.9844 / 5°59'3"W
OS Eastings: 154773
OS Northings: 739357
OS Grid: NM547393
Mapcode National: GBR CCLL.CMW
Mapcode Global: WGZDT.1BKG
Entry Name: Gruline House, cairn 400m W of
Scheduled Date: 24 March 2003
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM10588
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Torosay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises a cairn of prehistoric date, visible today as a tree-covered mound.
The monument lies some 400m W of Gruline House. The stone-built cairn itself measures about 18m in diameter and stands over 2m high. This cairn sits on a circular platform of stone, 30m in diameter. The cairn has clearly suffered from stone robbing in the past but is still in reasonable condition.
Cairns of this type are funerary monuments dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Age (the third or second millennium BC), and may be expected to contain material relating to their mode of construction and use.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material is likely to survive. It is circular in shape with a diameter of 36m, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
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 importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NM53NW 6.
References:
RCAHMS 1980a, ARGYLL: AN INVENTORY OF THE MONUMENTS VOLUME 3: MULL, TIREE, COLL AND NORTHERN ARGYLL (EXCLUDING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL AND LATER MONUMENTS OF IONA), Edinburgh: HMSO, 57, No. 39(1).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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