View of chambered cairn

Description View of chambered cairn

Date 6/1991

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 94167 CS

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 438350

Scope and Content Chambered cairn, Kinbrace Hill Long, Kildonan, Sutherland Two impressive cairns less than 3m apart and aligned on a common axis are regarded as a single complex monument, and are situated on the E side of the Strath of Kildonan, on a hillside which was afforested in the 1970s. View looking SW, showing the smaller of the two cairns. The area immediately around the cairns was left unplanted during afforestation. The cairn in view is 33m long by 18.3m wide at the SW and 14.3m wide at the NE; it rises to 6.8 m at its highest point. 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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