Publication Account

Date 1996

Event ID 1016506

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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This great cairn of bare stones, 24m in diameter and 4.4m high, is the sole survivor of a cemetery of three mighty ca irns that once clustered on the long low ridge of Cairn Muir. Its plain, unadorned, profile and absence of vegetation are typical of the larger bronze-age cairns of the region.

Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).