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Clava Cairns
Bronze Age burial cairns ringed by standing stones in a quiet grove, about 4,000 years old.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- Balnuaran of Clava, near CullodenDirections
- Getting There
- About 5 minutes by car from Culloden Battlefield, down narrow lanes.
Why Go
Three great round cairns stand in a line at Balnuaran of Clava, two of them passage graves whose entrances face the midwinter sunset. Each is circled by standing stones, tallest on the side of the setting sun.
Nearby in Loch Ness
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