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West Town, ring cairn 240m SW of, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Inverness-shire, Scotland. Ring cairns of this type typically date to the Bronze Age and represent a distinctive form of ceremonial or burial structure, consisting of a circular or roughly circular earthwork with an outer ring of stones. The monument survives in the landscape as a material expression of Bronze Age ritual and mortuary practice in the Scottish Highlands. Such structures are valued archaeological evidence for understanding settlement patterns, social organisation, and ceremonial activity during the Bronze Age period in northern Scotland.
West Town, ring cairn 240m SW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11551. View the official record →
West Town, ring cairn 240m SW of, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Inverness-shire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11551.
West Town, ring cairn 240m SW of dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a ring cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
West Town, ring cairn 240m SW 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 SM11551.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ruthven, crannog 610m NNE of (5.3 km), Tom Buidhe, enclosure 480m NNE of Ruthven (5.4 km), Dhuallow, cairn 195m E of (6.4 km).
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