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Tom of Cluny is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Perthshire, Scotland, approximately 450 metres south-south-west of Cluny. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6251. Chambered cairns of this type date to the Neolithic period and represent some of Scotland's earliest monumental architecture, built by farming communities who adopted new ways of life around 4000 BCE.
The cairn is constructed on bedrock formed from the Southern Highland Group, comprising psammite and pelite deposits laid down during the Middle Cambrian period around 500 million years ago. These metamorphic rocks would have provided stone for the cairn's construction, though the builders would have selected stones suitable for the internal chamber and outer heap. The local geology of Perthshire, with its abundant stone resources, made it well-suited for cairn construction during the Neolithic.
Chambered cairns served as communal burial monuments and likely played an important role in marking territorial identity and maintaining social cohesion amongst Neolithic communities. The chamber would have been used for successive burials, and the cairn itself would have been a permanent, visible symbol of ancestral presence in the landscape. Tom of Cluny remains an important archaeological record of this formative period in Scottish prehistory.
Tom of Cluny,chambered cairns 450m SSW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6251. View the official record →
Tom of Cluny is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Perthshire, Scotland, approximately 450 metres south-south-west of Cluny. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6251.
Tom of Cluny,chambered cairns 450m SSW of dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a chambered cairns. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Tom of Cluny,chambered cairns 450m SSW 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 SM6251.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich (2.3 km), The Dun,fort 400m ESE of Tyndun (3.7 km), Home Farm, ring-ditch 420m S of (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Tom of Cluny,chambered cairns 450m SSW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Tom of Cluny,chambered cairns 450m SSW of stands on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is psammite and pelite.