Clava North East Cairn by Garlor

Photography • Historical • posted on May 25, 2007

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Description

The Clava Cairns are situated near the River Nairn, not far from Culloden battlefield outside Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. The site consists of three cairns, two are passage burial cairns and the other is a ring type cairn. Each cairn is surrounded by a circle of standing stones, and none of them now have a roof on. The age of the cairns has been estimated at 1500 to 2000BC. The north-eastern cairn, the first one reached from the main entrance to the site, is a passage cairn, with 11 standing stones. The standing stones are irregularly spaced, probably partly due to the fact that some of the stones were reset in the 19th century. On the west is a square standing stone. The ring is approximately 110 feet in diameter, with the cairn being about 10 feet in height and 55 feet in diameter. The chamber has a diameter of 12-13 feet. This cairn was excavated in 1828, when bones and pottery were found.