Bencallen Hill,chambered cairn

Bencallen Hill is a chambered cairn in the woods east of Barr in South Ayrshire, Scotland, 200 m north of the Shiel Bridge. It is also known as The Druid’s Grave or Shiel Bridge. The monument was discovered in 1975 and is an unusual example of the Bargrennan type.

The cairn was built within the wall of a sheepfold, about 70 m northeast of the public road. It is now largely worn away, although its original diameter was probably about 15 m. The chamber, entered from the north, retains its three capstones. Two pairs of upright slabs and an endstone remain as its supporting stones.

The site is dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 2500 BCE. Frances Lynch and Lionel J. Masters have published studies of this and other megalithic tombs, including Masters’s account of the rediscovery of the chambered tomb.

A chambered cairn is a stone mound over one or more burial chambers reached by a passage. Scotland has many Neolithic tombs, especially in Orkney and Caithness, although they are not confined to those areas. The surviving structures at Bencallen Hill preserve only part of the original cairn and chamber.

Bencallen Hill,chambered cairn is a chambered cairn in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: architectural structure in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 2500 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Bencallen Hill", shown in the original language.