June
26
/ 2018
A 5000-year-old stone burial structure in northern Scotland has been deliberately ripped apart to make way for an unsightly red-neck bird hide, constructed from a wooden pallet and the canopy for a pick-up truck. And to add an element of class, the hide was painted camouflage! Known as Carn Glas long cairn, it is one of a group of three Neolithic burial mounds located at Achvraid, Essich, near Inverness. Created in the 4th millennium BC for funerary rites and burials, this site is protected by law and North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) told reporters at The Press and Journal, “the cairn had been deliberately damaged.” In a social media post they added: “Apparently turf has been cut and stones
