View SW of Ri Cruin Bronze Age round cairn, Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, UK, showing the northernmost of three burial cists which contained a cremation.

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View SW of Ri Cruin Bronze Age round cairn, Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, UK, showing the northermost of three burial cists which contained a cremation. All three were constructed using carpentry techniques: grooves & rebates to tightly fit the end-slabs. The cists, uncovered by stone robbing, were excavated in 1870 & again in 1929. The cairn was retained by a kerb of boulders & is around 20m across. It's the most southerly cairn in a line of five forming a prehistoric linear cemetery in Kilmartin Glen.

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Location: Ri Cruin Round Cairn, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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