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West Croachy House is a Bronze Age cairn located in Inverness-shire, in the Scottish Highlands. The monument lies approximately 1000 metres east-south-east of West Croachy House, situated on bedrock of the Moine Supergroup. This ancient metamorphic foundation consists of gneissose psammite and gneissose semipelite, rock types formed during the Neoproterozoic and later transformed by intense geological pressures. The resistant nature of this bedrock would have provided stable ground for the cairn's construction during the Bronze Age, when communities in this region built such monuments as burial markers and territorial markers across the landscape.
The cairn represents an important element of the Bronze Age cultural landscape of the northern Highlands. Such monuments were typically constructed by heaping stone onto a burial cist or cremation deposit, serving as enduring memorials within the local community. The specific location, several kilometres from the nearest settlement, reflects typical Bronze Age siting practices on open moorland and upland terrain.
The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under the designation SM11433, recognising its archaeological and historical significance. The cairn survives as a tangible record of Bronze Age funerary practices and settlement patterns in this region of Scotland.
West Croachy House, cairns 1000m ESE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11433. View the official record →
West Croachy House is a Bronze Age cairn located in Inverness-shire, in the Scottish Highlands. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11433.
West Croachy House, cairns 1000m ESE 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 SM11433.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dhuallow, cairn 195m E of (1 km), Shenval, settlement (2.2 km), Brin Nursery, barrow cemetery 70m NNW of (2.3 km).
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West Croachy House, cairns 1000m ESE of stands on Moine Supergroup, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is gneissose psammite and gneissose semipelite.