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Shurrery Kirk is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Caithness, northern Scotland, dating to the Neolithic period. The monument consists of a stone-built cairn containing an internal burial chamber, representing a characteristic form of megalithic funerary architecture typical of north-eastern Scotland during the fourth and third millennia before Christ. Such chambered cairns served as communal burial monuments and are among the most substantial surviving structures from the Neolithic era in this region. The site is recorded under Historic Environment Scotland's designation SM477 on the INSPIRE database.
Shurrery Kirk,chambered cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM477. View the official record →
Shurrery Kirk is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Caithness, northern Scotland, dating to the Neolithic period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM477.
Shurrery Kirk,chambered cairn dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a chambered cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Shurrery Kirk,chambered cairn 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 SM477.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cnoc an Ratha,fort SSE of Shurrery Kirk (1.1 km), Creagan a'Bheannaich,chapel & graveyard (1.2 km), Sithean Buidhe, chambered cairn 1000m WSW of Brawlbin Mains (1.7 km).
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