What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Touch as Burial Cairn (bronze Age), Food Vessel (bronze Age). 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.
Bronze Age burial cairn; associated with a food vessel, indicating ritual or funerary practices of the period. Its precise location suggests it is a well-documented but isolated site, typical of later prehistoric cairns in Scotland.
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