This is part of the face of a stone forming part of one of the side walls of a small chamber within the Archonnel chambered cairn, which is within the forest above the SE end of Loch Awe. It has some interesting 19thC graffiti, with the name & date ‘J. McISA, 1843’ being prominent (J. McIsaacs?).
This impressive cairn is situated in a clearing in a large forestry plantation on the east side of Loch Awe. It appears as a bare, stony mound, rising to a maximum height of 4.3 metres, with the long axis aligned NE-SW. Its length is about 33 metres and the breadth decreases from about 19 metres at the NE end to about 12 metres at the SW end where the cairn has been considerably disturbed and is traversed by a modern stone wall. At the broader end of the cairn are the substantial remains of a burial chamber, which measures 3.7 metres in overall length and 0.8 metres in maximum breadth. It is entered between a pair of portal stones and through a short antechamber with two flanking slabs at an angle to the passage.
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