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Easter Delfour ring cairn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, approximately 220 metres south-south-west of Easter Delfour settlement. The monument comprises a ring cairn, a distinctive form of Bronze Age burial structure consisting of a roughly circular or oval arrangement of stones with a central void or depression, which typically dates to the second millennium BCE. Ring cairns of this type represent an important class of ritual and funerary monuments in the Scottish Highlands, often associated with domestic or pastoral communities of the Bronze Age. The site is recorded within Historic Environment Scotland's INSPIRE database under designation SM898, reflecting its recognised archaeological significance as part of Scotland's Bronze Age monument corpus.
Easter Delfour, ring cairn 220m SSW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM898. View the official record →
Easter Delfour ring cairn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, approximately 220 metres south-south-west of Easter Delfour settlement. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM898.
Easter Delfour, ring cairn 220m SSW of dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Easter Delfour, ring cairn 220m SSW 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 SM898.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Doune, motte, Rothiemurchus (4.3 km), Dunachton Lodge, symbol stone 75m SSW of (4.5 km), Loch an Eilein Castle (5.5 km).
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