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Blue House is a cairns monument located in East Lothian, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site consists of one or more stone heaps situated approximately 720 metres to the east-south-east of Blue House farm. These funerary monuments belong to a prehistoric tradition of burial commemoration common across Scotland during the Bronze Age and earlier periods, when communities constructed cairns to mark the graves of their dead and serve as enduring landscape features.
The monument sits upon bedrock formed during the Early Devonian period, an unnamed felsic igneous intrusion that emerged in the geological transition between the Late Silurian and Early Devonian epochs. This underlying geology of hard, pale-coloured igneous rock would have been familiar to the prehistoric communities who constructed the cairn, as they gathered stones from the surrounding landscape for the monument's construction.
The cairn remains a testament to Bronze Age burial practices in East Lothian, where such monuments cluster across the undulating terrain. As a scheduled monument under reference SM7873, Blue House is afforded statutory protection, ensuring that this ancient burial marker and the archaeological evidence it contains are preserved for future study and public understanding of Scotland's prehistoric past.
Blue House, cairns 720m ESE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7873. View the official record →
Blue House is a cairns monument located in East Lothian, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7873.
Blue House, cairns 720m ESE 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 SM7873.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mainslaughter Law,cairn (4.9 km), Mutiny Stones,long cairn 1100m NNW of Byrecleugh (5.2 km), Chester's Dikes, settlement (5.6 km).
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Blue House, cairns 720m ESE of stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Late Silurian To Early Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is felsic-rock.