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Winding Cairn is a Bronze Age cairn located in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. The monument consists of a circular mound of stones typical of burial cairns constructed during the Bronze Age, a period spanning approximately 2200 to 800 BC. Such cairns served as communal or individual burial monuments and represent important evidence of funerary practices and settlement patterns in prehistoric Scotland. The site's designation within the Historic Environment Record reflects its significance as part of the archaeological heritage of the region.
Winding Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12469. View the official record →
Winding Cairn is a Bronze Age cairn located in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12469.
Winding 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 SM12469.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bunkle Castle (7.3 km), Bonkyl and Preston parish church, church 10m S of (7.4 km), Auchencrow Mains, settlements 460m W of (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Winding Cairn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Winding Cairn stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.