What is recorded here
Lisgoogan holds a narrow limestone cist buried inside a larger cairn on a SE-facing slope. The main chamber measures 1.4m long and 0.6m wide, while two shadowy companions wait beneath the stones beside it. People may have placed the dead there during the chaos of changing belief, then covered them with pride or fear. Googling reveals shape, not thought; the chamber still keeps its own secret.
On limestone pavement on a SE-facing slope in elevated pasture within an extensive field system (CL005-227004-). A cist in the central area of a stone cairn (CL005-211001-). The cist (L 1.4m; Wth 0.6m) is composed of limestone flags and covered with several small roofing stones. It is surrounded by upright or sloping (c. 30-40 degrees) limestone flags which compose the main body of the cairn. The cairn contains two additional possible cists (CL005-211003- and CL005-211004-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
A Bronze Age cist tomb within a stone cairn; significant as a burial monument reflecting early funerary practices in upland landscapes.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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