What is recorded here

Iskancullin holds a rectangular cist at its heart, buried under a cairn of loose stones. Vertical slabs still mark three sides of the small chamber, while the fourth has vanished into the mound. The dead may have lain there before the hills forgot their names, waiting for hands generous enough to dig and gentle enough to leave the chamber unchanged.

Embedded in the centre of a burial cairn (CL009-213001-). This rectangular stone-lined cist (min. 0.6m E-W; 0.6m N-S) is defined at S, W and N by stone slabs (exposed H 0.32-0.45m; T 0.1-0.2m) set vertically on edge. The cist is filled with cairn stones, which also obscure its E end. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-213002-_01.jpg View of cist from E Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 April 2022

A rectangular stone-lined cist, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with a burial cairn; such cists are significant as early forms of chambered tombs used for single or multiple burials in Atlantic Europe.

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