View of chambered cairn
SC 438317
Description View of chambered cairn
Date 3/1993
Catalogue Number SC 438317
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 94168 CS
Scope and Content Chambered cairn, Lyne, Assynt, Sutherland The cairn is on the E side of a moorland valley, a little above its boggy floor and the bank of the Ledbeg River. Much of the cairn material has been removed, and only two conspicuos orthostats remain. Two orthostats stand conspicuosly on the top of the knoll on which the cairn was built, both 1.1m high and set 0.55m apart. From a description written in 1909 these stones can be identified as the E side-slab and back-slab of a chamber. 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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