Crarae Chambered Cairn by munki-boy
Crarae Chambered Cairn
Around 3500 BC the small farming community living here built a cairn to house the skeletons of their ancestors. They held ceremonies in front of the cairn, during which the dead may have been brought out of the chamber.
The original cairn would have been much longer, stretching back around 33 m (108 ft) from the east facing entrance. Entered by a narrow gap between the two tallest upright stones, the chamber would have been roofed with slabs and covered with smaller stones. In the 1950s archaeologists found the remains of three people, two of whom had been cremated, and a flint arrowhead in the chamber.
Created: 17 April 2019 Edited: 29 November 2023
Crarae Chambered Cairn
Crarae Chambered Cairn LiDAR Map
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Local History around Crarae Chambered Cairn
There are some historic monuments around including:
Lachlan Castle Secular: castle SM292Kilmorie Church, burial ground and cross, 450m SW of Castle Lachlan Crosses and carved stones: cross (free-standing); Ecclesiastical: church SM9250Crarae Lodge,long cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn SM2310Brainport Bay,stone alignments and quern quarries Industrial: mines, quarries; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone setting SM5283Furnace, Ironworks Industrial: iron and steel SM2530Minard Cross,Free Church Manse Crosses and carved stones: cross (free-standing) SM4071Chapel of Kilbride, 240m SE of Kilbride Island Ecclesiastical: chapel SM3337Lochfyne,gunpowder-works,Furnace Industrial: gunpowder, explosives, munitions SM5813.
