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Doonies Kerb Cairn is a Bronze Age ceremonial monument located approximately 450 metres west-northwest of Doonies in Angus, Scotland. The site comprises a cairn of stacked stone surrounded by a kerb or perimeter wall of stones, a burial construction type characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in Scotland, typically dating to the second millennium before the present. Kerb cairns of this type served as monuments marking elite burials and held significance as territorial or dynastic markers within Bronze Age communities. The monument is registered in the Historic Environment Scotland INSPIRE database under reference SM6910 and remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary and ceremonial activity in Angus.
Doonies, kerb cairn 450m WNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6910. View the official record →
Doonies Kerb Cairn is a Bronze Age ceremonial monument located approximately 450 metres west-northwest of Doonies in Angus, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6910.
Doonies, kerb cairn 450m WNW of dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a kerb cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Doonies, kerb cairn 450m 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 SM6910.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Meall Beag,settlement and field systems (2.1 km), Redlatches,settlement and field system 200m W of (3.6 km), Birkhill, ring ditch houses 500m SSE of (3.7 km).
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