Welcome to Cairnpapple, one of the most significant prehistoric monuments in Scotland, located in the Bathgate Hills, West Lothian in the south-east Lowlands. Cairnpapple (but not this website) is maintained by Historic Scotland.
The archaeology on the main site here spans a remarkable period of some 4000 years of activity, from about 3500 BC through to c.500 AD, with its major features being a Neolithic henge and circle, followed by a series of three Bronze Age cairns with cist burials, and a Late Iron Age cemetery.
The website is new and still under development, so not everything will necessarily work perfectly just yet. Please note that many pages are bandwidth-heavy due to large numbers of image files.
Please also feel free to peruse the contents of other sites on the CyberScotia domain, including other works-in-progress such as Ancient Lothian: Historic South-East Scotland, Inchcolm: Iona of the East, The Complete Tannahill or West Lothian Place Names.