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Beoch Cairn, located approximately 1300 metres north-north-east of Beoch in Wigtownshire, is a Bronze Age burial monument consisting of a stone cairn. The site represents funerary practice characteristic of the Bronze Age period in south-west Scotland, when such cairns served as communal or individual burial monuments. The cairn's physical structure comprises a mound of stones, typical of monuments constructed during the second and first millennia before the present. Such monuments are significant archaeological indicators of settlement patterns and ritual practices in prehistoric Dumfries and Galloway.
Beoch, cairn 1300m NNE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7404. View the official record →
Beoch Cairn, located approximately 1300 metres north-north-east of Beoch in Wigtownshire, is a Bronze Age burial monument consisting of a stone cairn. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7404.
Beoch, cairn 1300m NNE 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 SM7404.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mahaar, barrow 320m N of (8.3 km), Barrow and pit alignment, 420m NE of Mahaar (8.4 km), Little Lochans, ring-ditch house 410m SSE of (9.2 km).
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