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Latitude: 55.4122 / 55°24'44"N
Longitude: -5.7087 / 5°42'31"W
OS Eastings: 165345
OS Northings: 619403
OS Grid: NR653194
Mapcode National: IRL XD.BJCR
Mapcode Global: GBR DG8D.RX4
Entry Name: Torchoillean,standing stone and cairn 850m NW of
Scheduled Date: 2 October 1936
Last Amended: 1 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM206
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Campbeltown
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of a standing stone, and immediately to its east a cairn surrounded by a bank on the circumference of an oval measuring 12m by up to 11m, which is in turn surrounded by a low bank or scarp on an oval measuring 36m x 40m. A gap in the latter to the SE may be an original entrance.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is comparable to several other low complex cairns in Scotland. Such cairns may allow a link with the Early Bronze Age of England and other parts of Scotland. They are nationally important as a prevalent distinctive group with a rich associated funerary assemblage. The standing stone may possibly be the last upstanding remains of a stone ring. Whether originally single or originally part of a ring of stones the importance of the site is enhanced by the co-occurrence of both ritual and funerary elements on the one site.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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