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Mid-Argyll - 41
Upper Largie

Site/Artefact Upper Largie Type Cist Site Number 41 National Grid Reference 1831 East 6005 North Map ( 1:25000) Ordnance Survey Landranger 55 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Excavation Details
A magnetometer survey and trial excavation was carried out on the site in 1982-3 by the Central Excavation Unit, Historic Buildings and Monuments: Scottish Development Department. This was necessary due to the threat to the site by gravel extraction. Further work was undertaken in 1983.

Cist 1

Measured 1.25m by 0.7m and 0.7m deep and consisted of four large slabs and a massive capstone.

Cist 2

Measured 0.9m by 0.5m and 0.5m deep and consisted of four large slabs with a large cover slab and basal slab. The gaps between the basal slab and the side and end-slabs had been filled with cobbling. There were no burial deposits.

Cist 3

Measured 0.35m by 0.27m and 0.24m deep and had been set in a pit filled with boulders, there was no capstone.

Finds

- charcoal and burnt bone, the remains of an urn containing a cremation and a plano-convex knife was found nearby.

The other features included a shallow pit which contained charcoal and fragments of cremated bone, pottery sherds and burnt stones.

Description
The site consisted of four cists and four other features (two of which may have been cists) which were situated on the summit of a gravel terrace near Kilmartin. Out of these one cist was repositioned after excavation but was later partly covered by a layby and is now largely overgrown, and the other cists are no longer apparent.

Access/Ownership
This site is on private land and permission should be sought.

References

• DES (1983), 22-3
• Mercer, R J "Excavations at Upper Largie Quarry, Kilmartin, Argyll" 1983
• Campbell and Sandeman, 20, no.136
• PSAS, 64 (1929-30), 142-3
• Name Book, No.15, p.12

Mid-Argyll Sites and Artefacts

1. Kilmory Oib  2. Druim an Dúin  3. Duntroon  4. Dún Ardifur 1  5. Eilean Rígh 1  6. Dún Chonaillach  7. Loch Awe Crannogs  8. Torran Hoard  9. Dún na Nighinne 10. Kilmartin Parish Church 11. Temple Wood Stone Circles 12. Ogham stone, Poltalloch 13. Barnakil Cross 14. Kilbride Chapel 15. Kilbride Crosses 16. Dunadd Fort 17. In Nomine disk 18. Brooch Moulds 19. Dunadd cross-marked quern 20. Loch Glashan Crannog 21. Glebe Cairn

22. Nether Largie North 23. Nether Largie Mid 24. Nether Largie South 25. Ri Cruin 26. Nether Largie 27. Ballymeanoch - Stones 28. Ballymeanoch - Henge 29. Ballymeanoch - Cairn 30. Dunchragaig 31. Baluachraig 32. Carnassarie Castle 33. BallymeanocH - Barrow 34. Dun Mac Samhainn 35. Glenmoine, Upper Largie 36. Creag a' Mhadaidh 37. Carnassarie - Round Cairn 38. Carnasserie - Standing Stones 39. Carnasserie - Cist 40. Carnasserie Cottage 41. Upper Largie - Cist 42. Upper Largie - Rock Carvings

43. Nether Largie 44. Poltalloch - Cist 45. Poltalloch - cists 46. Bruach an Druimein 47. Dunchraigaig - Dun 48. Poltalloch - Round Cairn 49. Rownfield - Cist 50. Ballymeanoch - Cist 51. Poltalloch - Cists 52. Ballymeanoch - Dun 53. Dunadd - Standing Stones 54. Dunadd - Standing Stone 55. Baile Mor - Dun 56. Anaskeog - Rock Carvings 57. Bariole 58. Rhudil - Round Cairn 1 59. Rhudil - Round Cairn 2 60. Kilmartin Castle 61. Slockavullin 62. Rowanfield - Standing Stone 63. Poltalloch - Cremation

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