Scheduled Monument
The Cloch,cairn 1700m W of Mains of BrothertonSM5143
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
- 21/10/1991
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 12/07/2018
- Type
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain); standing stone
- Local Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish
- Benholm
- NGR
- NO 78120 67942
- Coordinates
- 378120, 767942
Description
The monument is an unusual burial cairn of the Bronze Age situated on the summit of Cloch Hill. It comprises a turf covered cairn 18m in diameter and 0.5m high; the cairn may be a ring cairn with a central open area c. 8m in diameter. The stone which gives the site its name stands on the SSE; it is a conglomerate slab set on edge measuring 2.3m by 1.7m and 0.6m thick.
It is flanked by two rounded kerb stones; this arrangement has suggested that the site is aform of Recumbent Stone Circle. The area to be scheduled measures 60m in diameter centred on the cairn, to include the cairn and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved example of an unusual type of cairn (only 2 other certain examples are known in the area) which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of the diversity and development of prehistoric burial and ceremonial sites. It is of particular importance because of its clear relationship with the cairn 470m to the S, which has very obviously been built just over the near horizon so that it is not visible from The Cloch.
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