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Tulach Buaile Assery is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Caithness, Scotland, dating to the Neolithic period. The monument consists of a stone cairn constructed to cover and protect an internal burial chamber, representing a form of communal burial practice characteristic of early agricultural communities in northern Scotland during the fourth and third millennia before the present. The site is recorded within the Historic Environment Scotland database under the designation SM498, reflecting its status as a scheduled ancient monument of archaeological importance. As with other chambered cairns of the region, it provides evidence of Neolithic settlement patterns and funerary practices in the far north of Britain.
Tulach Buaile Assery,chambered cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM498. View the official record →
Tulach Buaile Assery is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Caithness, Scotland, dating to the Neolithic period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM498.
Tulach Buaile Assery,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.
Tulach Buaile Assery,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 SM498.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cnoc an Ratha,fort SSE of Shurrery Kirk (2.5 km), Sithean Buidhe, chambered cairn 1000m WSW of Brawlbin Mains (2.6 km), Creagan a'Bheannaich,chapel & graveyard (2.9 km).
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