Collection Item
SC 438264
Catalogue Number SC 438264
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 99540 CS
Scope and Content Chambered cairn, Achaidh, Creich, Sutherland The cairn is on a moorland hillside, placed on a wide shelf above the valley of the Spinningdale Burn. It is about 17.7m along its axis, and retains a height of 2.4m on the W side of the chamber. The cairn was investigated in 1909, and bones were found. The massive lintel over the inner end of the entrance passage to the chamber can be seen; it rests on the NE portal stone, and on a horizontal slab over the SW portal stone. The entrance passage is much denuded. 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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