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Trowie Knowe chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located in Shetland, Scotland. The site comprises a stone-built chambered structure characteristic of the early farming communities that inhabited the islands during the third millennium BCE. Like other chambered cairns of Shetland, it would have functioned as a communal burial place, reflecting the social and ceremonial practices of Neolithic settlement in the Northern Isles. The monument remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement patterns and funerary traditions in this region.
Trowie Knowe chambered cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3578. View the official record →
Trowie Knowe chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located in Shetland, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3578.
Trowie Knowe 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 SM3578.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Giant's Grave, standing stones and cairn, Beorgs of Housetter (0.1 km), Beorgs of Housetter, chambered cairn 730m NW of Setter House (0.2 km), Meishie o' Stanes, two cairns 120m N of Collafirth Pier (1.2 km).
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