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Giants' Graves is a Neolithic long cairn located at Whiting Bay on the Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The monument dates to the Neolithic period and represents one of the significant megalithic burial structures of the west coast of Scotland. The cairn displays the characteristic elongated mound form typical of long cairns from this era, constructed as a communal burial monument to house the remains of multiple individuals. This site is part of the important distribution of Neolithic monumental architecture found across the Clyde region and Scottish islands, reflecting the ritual and social practices of early farming communities in prehistoric Britain.
Giants' Graves, long cairns, Whiting Bay, Arran is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM398. View the official record →
Giants' Graves is a Neolithic long cairn located at Whiting Bay on the Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM398.
Giants' Graves, long cairns, Whiting Bay, Arran dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a long cairns, whiting bay, arran. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Giants' Graves, long cairns, Whiting Bay, Arran 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 SM398.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Torran Loisgte, chambered cairn 100m ENE of, Arran (0.4 km), Glenashdale Wood,fort 1340m WNW of Giants Graves,Arran (1.3 km), Kildonan Castle (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Giants' Graves, long cairns, Whiting Bay, Arran's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Giants' Graves, long cairns, Whiting Bay, Arran stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.