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Droop Hill Cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Kincardineshire, Scotland, approximately 1250 metres south-west of Inches. The site consists of one or more stone cairns constructed on bedrock belonging to the Dunnottar-Crawton Group, a geological formation of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate dating from the Lochkovian period of the Early Devonian.
Cairns of this type were built during the Bronze Age as communal burial monuments, with stones gathered from the surrounding landscape and piled over cremated remains. The underlying sandstone and conglomerate geology would have provided suitable material for construction. The monument's survival on this upland terrain reflects the typical location of such cairns on higher ground throughout north-east Scotland.
The site is afforded statutory protection by Historic Environment Scotland under the reference SM4778, recognising its archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric funeral practices and social organisation in Kincardineshire. The cairn remains an important example of Bronze Age funerary architecture in the region.
Droop Hill,cairns 1250m SW of Inches is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4778. View the official record →
Droop Hill Cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Kincardineshire, Scotland, approximately 1250 metres south-west of Inches. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4778.
Droop Hill,cairns 1250m SW of Inches 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 SM4778.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Blackhill Wood,long cairn and cairn E of (4 km), St. Palladius' Chapel (4.3 km), Fordoun,homestead moat (4.9 km).
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Droop Hill,cairns 1250m SW of Inches stands on Dunnottar-Crawton Group, bedrock that formed in the Lochkovian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.