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Kelly Bank Cottage Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in Renfrewshire, approximately 1200 metres east-north-east of Kelly Bank Cottage. The cairn stands on bedrock of the Stratheden Group, a formation of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate deposited during the Late Devonian period. This stable geological foundation would have provided the cairn builders with suitable ground for constructing a durable funerary structure.
The cairn represents a type of monument common across Bronze Age Scotland, typically serving as a burial place or territorial marker for farming communities who occupied the landscape during the second millennium before Christ. Its location in Renfrewshire reflects the distribution of such monuments across the Southern Uplands and their periphery, where Bronze Age populations exploited both upland and lowland resources.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12843, recognising its archaeological importance and ensuring its preservation for future study and public understanding of Scotland's prehistoric heritage.
Kelly Bank Cottage, cairn 1200m ENE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12843. View the official record →
Kelly Bank Cottage Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in Renfrewshire, approximately 1200 metres east-north-east of Kelly Bank Cottage. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12843.
Kelly Bank Cottage, cairn 1200m ENE 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 SM12843.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kelly Bank Cottage, cairn 1240m ENE of (0.1 km), Kelly Bank Cottage, cairn 750m E of (0.5 km), Glen Everton House, cairn 540m SSE of (1.8 km).
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Kelly Bank Cottage, cairn 1200m ENE of stands on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.