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The cairns located 350 metres west-northwest of Acharn in Argyllshire are a Bronze Age funerary monument, reflecting the burial practices of prehistoric Scotland's second millennium BCE. The site consists of one or more mounded stone cairns, structures characteristic of Bronze Age communities in the region who used such monuments to mark the graves of their dead and establish territorial presence across the landscape. Such cairns served as enduring markers of ancestral burial grounds and remain significant evidence of settlement patterns and social organization in Bronze Age Argyll. The monument's survival to the present day, despite millennia of landscape changes and land use, makes it an important archaeological resource for understanding prehistoric burial customs and settlement in the west of Scotland.
Acharn, cairns 350m WNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7793. View the official record →
The cairns located 350 metres west-northwest of Acharn in Argyllshire are a Bronze Age funerary monument, reflecting the burial practices of prehistoric Scotland's second millennium BCE. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7793.
Acharn, cairns 350m WNW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM7793.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Acharn Bridge, kerb-cairn 120m ENE of Acharn (0.4 km), Uladail, depopulated settlement (1.8 km), Beinn Bhan, standing stone 980m WNW of summit (4.1 km).
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