What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records House of the Binns as Cist (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.
Cist; likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. A small burial chamber typically covered with a cairn, significant as a common funerary monument in prehistoric Scotland.
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Places near here
The BinnsCairn (period Unassigned) · 178 yd
General Tam's Smoke HouseRuins · 333 yd
The Binns, RuinBuilding (period Unassigned) · 398 yd
Binns HillNatural Feature (period Unknown) · 454 yd
MannerstonTower House (medieval) · 612 yd
Blackness War MemorialMemorial · 1677 yd
North Philpstoun BingMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
Blackness BayBay · 1.1 mi
Midhope CastleTower House (medieval) · 1.5 mi
Shore WoodWood · 1.9 mi
Linlithgow, Kingscavil CemeteryCemetery (early 21st Century) · 2.0 mi
West Lothian Golf CourseHeritage attraction · 2.9 miOther information
Photo: Brian MacLennan · CC BY-SA 2.0