During the Neolithic Period (approx 4500 – 2200 B.C.) communities constructed chambered cairns for the burial of the dead. Grave goods were often deposited with the dead in order to help them in the afterlife. There are several well-preserved Neolithic tombs on Bute. Cairnbaan (the white cairn on account of the many white quartz boulders) in Lenihuline Wood stretches for 30 metres with stone chambers at the top and bottom of the cairn. Pictured are: a new Interpretation Panel on the bridge over to the cairn; our volunteers clearing the access around the lower end of the cairn; and the volunteer team taking a break.
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