Torrylin Cairn is the remains of a

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chambered tomb. It is located near Kilmory on the

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Description

Torrylin Cairn is situated beside Kilmory Water just south of the hamlet of Lagg.Torrylin Cairn
Historic Scotland, accessed 2 May 2014 The cairn has been interfered with by stone robbing and later dumping of field stones and its original shape and size are uncertain. The chamber is long by about wide with each compartment about long. Torrylin Cairn is of a type found across south-west Scotland known as a Clyde cairn, of which a better preserved example can be found at Carn Ban, about to the northeast. The tomb would probably have had a crescent-shaped forecourt, framed by a façade of slender upright stones. Antiquarian excavations in the 19th century uncovered an elongated burial chamber, divided into four compartments. Only the innermost compartment was intact. It contained the remains of six adults, a child and an infant. Beside them lay a flint tool and a fragment of pottery.

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*{{Historic Environment Scotland, num=SM90307, desc=Torrylin,chambered long cairn 610m SW of Isle of Arran Archaeological sites in North Ayrshire Historic Scotland properties in North Ayrshire Scheduled Ancient Monuments in North Ayrshire