What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dead Wife's Cairn, Clayshooter Hill as Cairn (period Unassigned)(possible), Structure (period Unassigned)(possible). 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.
A Neolithic cairn; its significance lies in its potential as an early funerary or ritual monument, typical of the burial practices of prehistoric Scotland.
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Places near here
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