By type
Chambered cairns, passage graves, henges and the great monuments raised over the dead.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Ballymeanoch is a complex of Neolithic structures in Kilmartin Glen: an avenue of two rows of standing stones (of four and two stones), a stone cir…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
Cairn Holy is the site of two Neolithic chambered tombs of the Clyde type, raised on a hillside overlooking Wigtown Bay near Cairnholy Farm. The tw…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Lothian
Cairnpapple Hill, on a dominating summit 312 metres above sea level with views from coast to coast in central lowland Scotland, was used and re-use…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
A Bronze Age funerary monument of the Inverness/Moray Firth communities; the three cairns and their stone circles appear to have been built as a si…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
Cuween Hill is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Orkney Mainland, dating to around 3000 BC and built by Neolithic farmers as a burial place. It is…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Dunchraigaig is an Early Bronze Age round cairn, about 30 m across, set a little apart to the south-east of the famous 2 km linear cemetery of cair…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
The tomb was plundered at an unknown date by breaking an opening through the roof of the chamber; the hole had been noted by the 16th century and w…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
The two cairns were built in the third or fourth millennium BC — around 3,000 BC — making them among the oldest structures in Scotland. They are ex…
Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Argyll and Bute
The chapel dates from the 11th century. Its now re-roofed structure houses an important collection of early stone sculpture, and the original Keill…
Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Argyll and Bute
The high cross was carved probably in the second half of the 8th century AD, in a workshop tradition closely related to the contemporary crosses on…
Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Argyll and Bute
The chapel was built in the 13th century. After its roof was lost the building was used as a burial enclosure, and it was re-roofed in 1934 to shel…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
The recumbent stone circle was constructed of granite in the early Bronze Age, with the recumbent stone set first; the earliest finds on site are N…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
The chambered cairn was built around 2800 BC by Neolithic farming communities of central Orkney, associated with the Grooved ware pottery tradition…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
Midhowe is a Neolithic 'stalled' chambered cairn of the Orkney-Cromarty type, on the south shore of Rousay, Orkney. The cairn appears to have been…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Nether Largie South is a Neolithic Clyde-type chambered cairn and the earliest monument in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery — the line of cairns…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
Quoyness is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Elsness peninsula of Sanday, Orkney, of the Maeshowe type and probably built around 3000 BC. Origina…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Ri Cruin is the most southerly cairn in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery, a Bronze Age burial cairn built between roughly 2200 BC and 1950 BC.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Temple Wood, in Kilmartin Glen, comprises two stone circles - a northern and a southern circle. The southern circle's first incarnation may have be…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
The chambered cairn was built sometime between about 3400 and 2800 BC (on the evidence of nearby tombs) as a Neolithic burial monument on a promont…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
The northernmost cairn in Kilmartin Glen's Bronze Age linear cemetery, one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric ritual and burial monuments…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
Kirkmadrine preserves some of the earliest Christian inscribed stones in Scotland, marking one of the country's oldest known Christian communities…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
It forms a central link in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery, one of Scotland's most concentrated groupings of prehistoric burial monuments.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Its carved capstone, marked with dozens of cup-marks and ten axe-head symbols, makes it one of the most vividly decorated Bronze Age burial monumen…
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