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Latitude: 56.1578 / 56°9'28"N
Longitude: -5.4089 / 5°24'32"W
OS Eastings: 188399
OS Northings: 701361
OS Grid: NM883013
Mapcode National: GBR FD0F.R6D
Mapcode Global: WH0HR.WHH5
Entry Name: Glasvaar,cairn 90m SW of
Scheduled Date: 16 November 1933
Last Amended: 20 November 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM203
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Glassary
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Traditional County: Argyllshire
This cairn is situated in gently sloping pasture about 90m SSW of Glasvaar farmsteading. The cairn is subcircular on plan, measuring 22m in diameter over a kerb of large boulders and stands to a maximum height of 1.2m. The area to be scheduled measures 52m in diameter to include the cairn and an area around in which traces of activites associated with its construction and use 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 late Neolithic or Bronze Age burial practice and other contemporary activity, for example from the old ground surface which it is likely to seal. A cupmarked stone, now located about 90m to the N may have derived from this cairn. This monument forms part of an internationally important concentration of contemporary and related monuments in the neighbourhood of the Kilmartin Valley.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The monument is recorded by RCAHMS as NM80SE4.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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