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Latitude: 57.0335 / 57°2'0"N
Longitude: -2.674 / 2°40'26"W
OS Eastings: 359190
OS Northings: 793797
OS Grid: NO591937
Mapcode National: GBR WW.BTH1
Mapcode Global: WH7NR.WGVX
Entry Name: Finzean House,long cairn 390m N of
Scheduled Date: 7 February 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4625
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn
Location: Birse
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Banchory and Mid Deeside
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
The monument consists of a massive long cairn of the period 4000BC to 2500BC, with a straight eastern facade. It measures 33m ESE/WNW, 26m NNE/SSW at its ESE end and 9m NNE/SSW at its WNW end. It is steep sided and 3.5m high at its ESE end. On top of it stones have been rearranged in modern times to form small enclosures. It appears to be unexcavated.
The area proposed for scheduling measures 55m ESE/WNW by 40m NNE/SSW and includes an area within which traces of activities associated with the cairn are likely to survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as an excellently preserved long cairn with the potential to increase our knowledge of Neolithic burial customs and architecture, and of the vegetation and landuse of the vicinity in the Neolithic period.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NO59SE 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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