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Arran, Kingscross Burn

Short Cist (prehistoric), Cinerary Urn (prehistoric)(possible), Implement (flint)(prehistoric)(possible)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Arran, Kingscross Burn as Short Cist (prehistoric), Cinerary Urn (prehistoric)(possible), Implement (flint)(prehistoric)(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 short cist burial, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with early farming communities in western Scotland. Its significance lies in providing evidence of prehistoric funerary practices and settlement in the Arran area.

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