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Belladrum Home Farm is a Neolithic chambered cairn situated in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands. The monument lies on bedrock of Lower Old Red Sandstone, formed during the Early Devonian period, comprising conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. This underlying geology would have influenced both the construction materials available to Neolithic builders and the drainage characteristics of the site.
Chambered cairns of this type typically date to the Neolithic period and served as communal burial monuments, their stone chambers containing human remains and grave goods. The Belladrum example belongs to a significant concentration of such monuments across the Inverness-shire region, reflecting the importance of this area to prehistoric communities. These structures represent substantial communal investment in monumental architecture and funerary practice.
The monument is recorded on the Historic Environment Scotland register under reference SM3194, recognising its archaeological importance and affording it statutory protection. The survival of chambered cairns such as this provides valuable evidence for understanding Neolithic settlement patterns, social organisation and belief systems in the Scottish Highlands during the period roughly 4000 to 3000 BC.
Belladrum Home Farm,chambered cairn WNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3194. View the official record →
Belladrum Home Farm is a Neolithic chambered cairn situated in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3194.
Belladrum Home Farm,chambered cairn WNW of dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a chambered cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Belladrum Home Farm,chambered cairn 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 SM3194.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tom na Croiseige, stepped mound (0.4 km), Auchvaich,chambered cairn 650m W of (1.4 km), Culburnie,ring cairn & stone circle (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Belladrum Home Farm,chambered cairn WNW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Belladrum Home Farm,chambered cairn WNW of stands on Lower Old Red Sandstone, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.