Treasured Places
Date 20 August 2007
Event ID 553623
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/553623
Machrie Moor is the site of a prehistoric ritual landscape dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages and includes several stone circles and chambered cairns. At this stone circle, known as Machrie Moor 2, three standing stones survive of an original seven or eight. Upon excavation two cists (stone coffins) were found in its interior. One contained a cremation and a Food Vessel, the other an inhumation burial.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 20 August 2007
Ritchie, A and Ritchie, G 1998
