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Lagwine Cairn

Cairn (period Unassigned)
Lagwine Cairn
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lagwine Cairn as Cairn (period Unassigned). 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.
Lagwine Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of the broader network of prehistoric funerary monuments in northern Scotland, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation.

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