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Latitude: 56.5014 / 56°30'5"N
Longitude: -4.3378 / 4°20'15"W
OS Eastings: 256201
OS Northings: 736822
OS Grid: NN562368
Mapcode National: GBR HCNJ.PRF
Mapcode Global: WH3KY.BVM9
Entry Name: Creag na Caillich,stone axe working site
Scheduled Date: 3 February 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5373
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: quarry (includes construction quarries and also artefact extract
Location: Killin
County: Stirling
Electoral Ward: Trossachs and Teith
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises the remains of a stone quarrying and axe working site of the Neolithic period, over 3000 years old. Recent fieldwork recovered evidence for the quarrying of rock by use of fire setting and the rough prepartion of the stone at the outcrop of rock, and for the secondary flaking of stone in the saddle below the outcrop. The axes made from this rock (group XXIV, a calc-silicate hornfels) are widely distributed on the east coast of Britain.
The area to be scheduled measures 450m N-S by 450m E-W, to include the areas where activity has been proved and an area around where the traces of further axe working activity, and possibly of settlement remains associated with it, may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as one of the very few identified quarries of stone for the Neolithic axe manufacturing industry. It has the potential, confirmed by limited survey and excavation, to enhance considerably our understanding of the processes of axe manufacture, and to aid the study of axe distribution.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the site as NN53NE 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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