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B 99548 CS
Description Duplicate available
Date 1993
Catalogue Number B 99548 CS
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 438284
Scope and Content Chambered cairn, Allt Sgiathaig, Assynt, Sutherland The cairn is unusually sited on a steep hillside overlooking a small narrow moorland valley draining into Loch Assynt. A small polygonal chamber, with diameters of about 1.7m to 2.1m, exists as a deep hollow within the cairn. Chambered cairns belong to the Neolithic, the period of the first farming peoples of Scotland, and were the burial places for local communities. The earliest tombs were built around 4000 BC, but the building tradition lasted until at least 2500 BC. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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