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Collection Item
SC 438268
Catalogue Number SC 438268
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 99543 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. During the course of the investigations of 1909, the intact roof of the chamber had to be dismantled; this is the rear of the chamber, where the corbelling still survives to almost its original height. 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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