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No. 85 CUP-AND-RING MARKINGS No.89

open moorland at a height of 150 m O.D. and is
aligned NE. and SW. The slabs forming the NW. side
and the NE. end are still in position and measure
respectively 1.5 m and 1.2 m in length. The SE.
side-slab has been displaced and now leans outwards; it
measures 1.4 m in length, and at its SW. end the top of a
fourth stone, 0.3 m long, is just visible above ground.
All the slabs are from 0.20 m to 0.25 m thick. The SW.
end of the cist is open, but a few stones, which lie
embedded in the turf at this point, may be broken
fragments of the missing end-slab, and suggest that the
cist was originally about 1.2 m long internally, while
the surviving NE. end-slab indicates a breadth of about
one metre. The interior is at least 1.1 m deep and at the
present time is waterlogged and largely choked with
moss and rushes. There is no trace of any surrounding
cairn-material. About 23 m to the SW. two isolated
earthfast slabs, situated some 6 m apart and measuring
respectively 1.1 m and 0.6 m in length, rise to a
maximum height of 0.8 m above ground, but it seems
unlikely that these are in any way connected with the cist.

690286 ccli (unnoted) May 1965

85. Burial, Tangytavil (Site). Human bones are said
to have been found during the 19th century about
135 m SE. of Tangytavil,1 but no further details are
known.

659291 ccli May 1963

86. Cist, Tarbert, Gigha (Site). During ploughing in
April, 1960 a cist was discovered about 90 m S. of
Tarbert farmhouse.2 Built of stone slabs, with the longer
axis aligned NE. and SW., it measured 0.9 m by 0.6 m
internally and was 0.48 m deep; it was surrounded by
what appeared to be the remains of a cairn. There were
no relics.

652516 ccxxiii (unnoted) May 1963

87. Burial, Tayinloan (Site). It is recorded3 that
human bones were discovered in a mound which stand
on the right bank of the Tayinloan Burn, 65 m NE. of
the bridge that carries the main road at Tayinloan.
Although the sides appear to have been trimmed at a
later date, the mound is a natural formation composed of
sand and gravel.

698459 ccxxxv ("Tumulus") May 1962

88. Cists, Trench Point, Campbeltown (Sites). Two
cists were discovered on Trench Point during the late
19th century, but no remains are now visible.
(1) In 1878 4 a short cist was found, containing a
crouched inhumation burial and "an earthenware
bowl". The dimensions of the cist are not recorded and
the pottery and bones are now lost.
(2) In 1897 5 another short cist containing a crouched
inhumation burial and a small worked flint flake was

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