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The Folly platform cairn

Scheduled monument

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The National Heritage List for England records The Folly platform cairn as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
A Neolithic platform cairn, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE, The Folly is significant as an example of early prehistoric funerary and ritual architecture in the British Isles.

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