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Latitude: 56.4025 / 56°24'8"N
Longitude: -3.725 / 3°43'30"W
OS Eastings: 293635
OS Northings: 724693
OS Grid: NN936246
Mapcode National: GBR 1M.0P39
Mapcode Global: WH5P2.RBCM
Entry Name: Seat Knowe, cairn 250m SSE of Murray's Hill Wood
Scheduled Date: 10 March 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7525
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Fowlis Wester
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Almond and Earn
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a burial cairn of prehistoric date, visible as a grass-covered stony mound.
The monument lies in pasture on a locally prominent ridge at around 220m OD. It comprises a roughly circular cairn, measuring about 10m in diameter by up to 2m in height. A modern stone cairn occupies its summit, and there are the low turf foundations of a rectilinear structure on its S side, the latter measuring some 6m by 8m.
The cairn is of a type characteristic of the later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods and may be expected to contain evidence for burials and related deposits under, within and around the mound.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is circular with a diameter of 45m, 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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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