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Cairniehill Loch

Crannog (period Unassigned), Fort (period Unassigned), Settlement (period Unassigned)
Cairniehill Loch
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cairniehill Loch as Crannog (period Unassigned), Fort (period Unassigned), Settlement (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Cairniehill Loch is associated with a crannog, a type of artificial island settlement, typically dating to the Iron Age or early medieval period in Scotland. Such sites are significant for understanding prehistoric and early historic habitation, resource use, and social organization in Scottish lochlands.

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Photo: Billy McCrorie · CC BY-SA 2.0