Collection Item
SC 438287
Catalogue Number SC 438287
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 99550 CS
Scope and Content Chambered cairn, Badnabay, Eddrachillis, Sutherland The site of the cairn is in a flat marshy area covered with coarse grass, bog myrtle and heather. Fifteen orthostats, the skeletal remains of a passage and chamber, stand in a slight depression that represents the area from which the surrounding cairn was removed long ago. The passage, facing the SE, is about 2m long. 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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