What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Meikle 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.
A Neolithic chambered cairn; significant as an early funerary and ceremonial structure in the prehistoric landscape of Scotland.
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