Glebe Cairn
Kilmartin Glebe Cairn · Glebe Cemetery
Early Bronze Age·Bronze Age Food Vessel·🇬🇧 Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
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About Glebe Cairn
Large Bronze Age burial cairn on the gravel terrace northwest of Kilmartin village, built c.2000–1500 BCE enclosing a stone cist cemetery with at least seven cists excavated in 1982–83 prior to gravel extraction. Finds include Food Vessel pottery and jet necklace. Together with Nether Largie cairns it forms the northern cemetery zone of Kilmartin Glen's linear burial landscape.
Why it mattersLarge Bronze Age burial cairn on the gravel terrace northwest of Kilmartin village, built c.2000–1500 BCE enclosing a stone cist cemetery with at least seven cists excavated in 1982–83 prior to gravel extraction. Finds i
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Scale of cemetery before gravel extraction
Theories
- 01Linear cemetery's northern extension
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2000–1500 BCE
- Period
- Early Bronze Age
- Culture
- Bronze Age Food Vessel
- Purpose
- Cairn cemetery with cists
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 2000–1500 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1500 CE
Major expansion
On the ground
Structures & features
56.1355° N · 5.4885° W · 30 m · 2 mapped features
Main Glebe cairn mound
cairn moundGravel mound c.20 m diameter covering cist cemetery
56.1355° N · 5.4885° WCist cemetery
cistSeven stone cists with Food Vessel burials
56.1356° N · 5.4886° W
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