cairns
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Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands, Scotland
c. 3000 BCE
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic burial monument dating from c. 3000 BCE, which contained the remains of 8 people and 24 dog skulls. It is open to visitor access and there are spectacular views from the hill.
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Maes Howe
Stenness, Scotland
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Cairn Fichlie, Glaschul Hill
Towie, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a cairn, located at approximately 360 OD immediately to the northeast of the summit of Glaschul Hill.
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Cairn Ley, Glaschul Hill
Towie, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a cairn, located at approximately 320m OD on a southeast-facing slope. This monument was scheduled in 1961, but the original scheduling inadequately defines the area.
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Rough's Cairn Consumption Dykes
Newhills, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a consumption dyke at Kingswells, known as Rough's Cairn, after its creator Alexander Rough. The dyke is visible as two drystone structures, the E section of monumental scale.
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Long Cairn 155m WNW of West Hatton Croft
Newhills, Scotland
The monument comprises a well-preserved long burial cairn of the Neolithic period, which survives as an upstanding monument within the farmed landscape.
- Ballachulish Pier Appin Murder Memorial Cairn Lismore and Appin, Scotland
- Cairn and Hill Fort White Meldon Peebles, Scotland
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Symbol Stone and Cairn High Keillor, 280m NW Of
Kettins, Scotland
The monument comprises a Pictish symbol stone and a cairn of Pictish or earlier date. The monument was first scheduled in 1923, and rescheduled in 1935, but an inadequate area was included to protect all of the archaeological remains.
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Standing Stone and Long Cairn 290m SE of Auchnaha
Kilfinan, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a chambered cairn, likely to date to between 3800 and 2500 BC, with a single standing stone 23m to the southwest.
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Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
Kirkwall and St Ola, Scotland
aThe monument consists of a Neolithic chambered cairn situated on a steep W-facing hillside NW of the summit of Wideford Hill.
- Barlea Standing Stone & Cairn Killean and Kilchenzie, Scotland
