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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CAIRN (Site of) [Feorline] | Cairn Bàn Cairn Bàn Cairn Bàn Cairn |
New Stat acct [Statistical account] McArthurs Antiquities Ebenezer Bannatyne Blackwater Inn Origines Parochiales |
253.03 | Several thousand cart loads of stones were removed from this cairn for the building of the houses in the neighbourhood, when large numbers of stone coffins filled with human bones placed irregularly over the surface soil, but not a vestige of stone or metallic implement could be found. It was considered one of the largest Cairns in scotland but of which scarcely a stone now remains. It was of a circular conoid formation measuring 200 feet across. It is called by the natives Cairn Ban a Feorline to distinguish it from others of the same name. The extent of the Cairn was pointed out to me by Ebenezer Bannatyne who principally removed it. " The largest Cairn in Scotland is said to be that at Blackwater Foot. It is now much diminished in size, owing to the great quantity of stones that have been carried away from it for dikes, drains, houses etc. but when entire, it was said to measure across upwards of 200 feet" New Stat [Statistical] Account. " See at Feorline another stupendous Cairn, 114 ft [feet] over & of a vast height: & from two of the opposite sides are two vast ridges; the whole formed of rounded stones or pebbles, brought from the shores. These immense accumulations of stones are the sepulchral protections of the heroes among the ancient natives of our islands: the stone chest,the repository of the Urns and ashes, are lodged in the earth beneath; sometimes one, sometimes more, are found thus deposited: and I have one instance of as many as 17 of these Stone Chests being discovered under the same Cairn" Pennant's Tour of 1772 |
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