📌 Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran
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Auchagallon Cairn is up to 4,000 years old and occupies a commanding position overlooking Machrie Bay, with views across to the Kintyre peninsula. It is a kerbed burial cairn, once containing the body of an important person placed in a stone-lined cist, and covered with a stone cairn. Fifteen upright stones form an outer “kerb” – plus a few more buried or missing ones. The ancient landscape at nearby Machrie Moor rightly receives more visitors, but this is still worth a stop if you’re passing by on the coast road.
🌍 Location
📌 Off the unclassified coast road at Auchagallon, 4 mi north of Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NR 893346
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.559827,-5.342790
🚌 Auchagallon jetty
🚗 Space to park at track junction, 🧭 NR 892346 / 🛰️ 55.559410,-5.344037 – don’t block access
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
