Scheduled Monument

Grannie's Heilan Hame, chambered cairn 30m NNE ofSM5975

Status: Designated

Documents

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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.

Summary

Date Added
09/05/1994
Supplementary Information Updated
22/11/2019
Type
Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Dornoch
NGR
NH 81777 92667
Coordinates
281777, 892667

Description

The monument consists of the remains of a prehistoric chambered burial cairn preserved in a car park at the entrance to a caravan park.

The chambered cairn is of the Orkney-Cromarty type, is approximately round and has two chambers. At a later date two short cists and a number of un-cisted cremations were inserted into the cairn. Excavation located traces of a kerb to the cairn on the SE side. The S chamber may originally have been covered by a small cairn and the N chamber and N portion of the cairn have been added later. The passage and entrance to the S chamber had been blocked at some stage in the development of the monument. One later cist had been excavated into the S chamber and this contained an intact pot and jet beads. A second, later cist had been excavated into the centre of the cairn and contained the skeletons of two babies accompanied by a pot and some sherds of Beaker pottery, of early Bronze Age date. Nine cremations were found: one was accompanied by a bronze razor and another by part of a bronze blade.

The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 15m SW-NE by 8m NW-SE, to include the remains of the chambered cairn, as shown on the accompanying map.

Statement of National Importance

The monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of prehistoric burial architecture and burial practices.

References

Bibliography

RCAHMS records the monument as NH89SW9.

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