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Teindside Lodge cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. The cairn lies approximately 50 metres north of Teindside Lodge, positioned on landscape underlain by Hawick Group wacke bedrock of Wenlock age. This greywacke geology characterises much of the upland terrain of the region and would have been the natural stone source available to those who constructed the monument.
As a cairn, the structure would originally have comprised a substantial mound of stones raised over a burial, typical of Bronze Age funerary practice in the Scottish Borders. The wacke bedrock of the locality would have provided suitable stone for construction, gathered from the surrounding moorland and rocky outcrops. Such cairns frequently contained cist burials or cremation deposits, though the specific contents of this example remain archaeologically unrecorded.
The monument is afforded statutory protection by Historic Environment Scotland under the reference SM3435, recognising its importance as a surviving example of Bronze Age burial architecture in Roxburghshire. The cairn remains a significant archaeological feature within the broader landscape of prehistoric funerary monuments across the southern Scottish uplands, where such structures are distributed across moorland terrain shaped by the underlying geology and topography.
Teindside Lodge,cairn 50m N of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3435. View the official record →
Teindside Lodge cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3435.
Teindside Lodge,cairn 50m N 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 SM3435.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dod,earthworks on right bank of Allan Water 670m WSW of (4.3 km), Dod,enclosure on Gray Coat,530m SW of (4.8 km), Priesthaugh,earthwork 130m SSE of (4.9 km).
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Teindside Lodge,cairn 50m N of stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.