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Cnocan nan Cobhar is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Kilmarie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. The monument dates to the Neolithic period and represents the funerary practices of early farming communities in the Scottish Highlands. Like other chambered cairns of this era, it would have functioned as a communal burial monument, with a stone-built internal chamber covered by a substantial cairn of stones. The site is recorded in the Historic Environment Scotland INSPIRE database under designation SM896.
Cnocan nan Cobhar,chambered cairn,Kilmarie is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM896. View the official record →
Cnocan nan Cobhar is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Kilmarie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM896.
Cnocan nan Cobhar,chambered cairn,Kilmarie dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a chambered cairn,kilmarie. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Cnocan nan Cobhar,chambered cairn,Kilmarie 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 SM896.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dun Ringill,dun 800m E of Cille Mhaire (1 km), Dun Liath,broch,Elgol (3.2 km), Clach Oscar, shielings W of (5.2 km).
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