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Stoneyburn Cairns 800m SW of is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The site comprises cairns built upon bedrock of the Portpatrick and Glenwhargen Formations, Caradocian wackes that underlie this upland landscape. These stone accumulations represent funerary structures typical of the Bronze Age, when such cairns served as enduring markers of burial sites and territorial claims across Scottish moorland.
The monument sits within terrain shaped by ancient geology and weathering, the wacke bedrock providing substantial stone for cairn construction. The Caradocian age deposits that form the site's foundation date from the Ordovician period, millions of years before the Bronze Age communities who built these monuments. This deep geological history frames the human activity that took place here in the second millennium BC.
The cairns are protected under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM4515, recognising their archaeological and cultural significance. The monument survives as tangible evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns across the Lanarkshire uplands. Though the site itself has seen little modern excavation, the cairns remain substantial field monuments, their stone masses still visible in the landscape where their builders placed them approximately four thousand years ago.
Stoneyburn,cairns 800m SW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4515. View the official record →
Stoneyburn Cairns 800m SW of is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4515.
Stoneyburn,cairns 800m SW 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 SM4515.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bodsberry Hill to Little Clyde,Roman road (3.3 km), Air Cleuch,cairns 1300m S of Glengeith (3.7 km), Crooked Stone, standing stone 160m N of Crookedstane (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Stoneyburn,cairns 800m SW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Stoneyburn,cairns 800m SW of stands on Portpatrick Formation And Glenwhargen Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is wacke.