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Latitude: 56.5643 / 56°33'51"N
Longitude: -3.4687 / 3°28'7"W
OS Eastings: 309837
OS Northings: 742331
OS Grid: NO098423
Mapcode National: GBR V5.TG2H
Mapcode Global: WH5NF.P8FM
Entry Name: Cairn Muir, cairn 190m NW of Cairnmuir
Scheduled Date: 8 December 1997
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7287
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Caputh
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a cairn of prehistoric date, visible as a stony mound.
The monument lies in an uncultivated enclosure within arable farmland at around 100m OD. It comprises a large mound of stones measuring about 32m in diameter and about 0.5m in height. Early records of stone removal suggest that it may originally have been rather larger.
The cairn is a characteristic Bronze Age funerary monument. Although stone-robbing has probably removed part of its surface layer of stones, burials and other ritual deposits may be expected to remain undisturbed within and beneath the surviving mound.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the cairn and an area around it within which related material may be expected to be found, bounded by a low recent wall. It is irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 60m NW-SE by 50m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NO 04 SE 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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