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Aviemore, cairn 25m SW of 24 Muirton is a prehistoric burial cairn located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, recorded in the Historic Environment Scotland database with the designation reference SM889. The monument represents a form of funerary architecture characteristic of Bronze Age practice in the Scottish Highlands, a period during which substantial stone heaps were constructed to mark the graves of the dead and serve as focal points in the landscape. The cairn's precise dimensions, excavation history, and any artefactual assemblage recovered from it are not widely documented in the accessible scholarly literature, though its survival as a discrete archaeological monument demonstrates its resilience as a physical feature of the ancient landscape.
Aviemore, cairn 25m SW of 24 Muirton is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM889. View the official record →
Aviemore, cairn 25m SW of 24 Muirton is a prehistoric burial cairn located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, recorded in the Historic Environment Scotland database with the designation reference SM889. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM889.
Aviemore, cairn 25m SW of 24 Muirton 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 SM889.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rothiemurchus, palisaded enclosure to NW of Dell Farm (1.8 km), Loch Nan Carraigean, cairns 40m S of (2.3 km), Doune, motte, Rothiemurchus (3.8 km).
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