MHG461 - Cist, Kinlochaline

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CIST (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2400 BC? to 560 AD?)

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Approximately NM 695 477. Four cists were discovered in April 1904, during the working of a sand-pit, at a point about 150m WNW of Kinlochaline Castle and about 120m N of cairn NM64NE 9. Some bones found within the cists are said to have been re-interred.
RCAHMS 1980; Information from 'Oban Times' 30 April 1904.

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--- SHG2660 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1980. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). . 63, No. 74.

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Grid reference	Centred NM 6949 4769 (4m by 4m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM64NE
Civil Parish	MORVERN
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/22428 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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