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Ballinshoe

Standing Stone (prehistoric), Cinerary Urn (bronze Age)
Ballinshoe
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ballinshoe as Standing Stone (prehistoric), Cinerary Urn (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Likely dating to the Bronze Age, Ballinshoe may have functioned as a funerary or ritual monument, associated with burial practices indicated by the presence of a cinerary urn. Standing stones of this period often held symbolic or ceremonial significance within local communities.

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Photo: Scott Cormie · CC BY-SA 2.0