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Woodburnhead cairns, located approximately 700 and 760 metres west of Woodburnhead in Perthshire, Scotland, are prehistoric funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age. These cairns form part of the broader Bronze Age burial landscape of the region and represent the ritual and commemorative practices of ancient communities in central Scotland. The monuments consist of stone-built mounds constructed to mark burial sites, typical of funerary tradition during the second millennium BCE. Such cairns across Perthshire demonstrate the continuity and extent of Bronze Age settlement and burial customs in the Scottish Highlands during prehistoric times.
Woodburnhead, cairns 700m & 760m W of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7211. View the official record →
Woodburnhead cairns, located approximately 700 and 760 metres west of Woodburnhead in Perthshire, Scotland, are prehistoric funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7211.
Woodburnhead, cairns 700m & 760m W 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 SM7211.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Glendoick, souterrains 670m WSW of (7.6 km), Unenclosed settlement NW of Mains of Murie (7.8 km), Newton of Glencarse, ring-ditches 270m NE of (8.2 km).
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