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Isle of South Uist, Loch Carnan

Cairn (period Unassigned)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Isle of South Uist, Loch Carnan as Cairn (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Cairn; period likely Neolithic or Bronze Age. It represents a common form of burial or ritual monument in the Scottish Atlantic seaboard, reflecting early ceremonial landscape use.

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