Clava Cairns (i)
Posted in History, Trips at 12:00 on 4 June 2026
Clava Cairns is a site near Inverness containing the quite well preserved remains of prehistoric structures used for burials. It’s also very close to the Culloden battle site.
General view from entrance:-
Looking back from inside site:-
Cairn (with entrance hidden by standing stone above):-
Interior of cairn:-
Cup and ring marks:-
Tags: Ancient Monuments, Clava Cairns, Culloden
jackdeighton
6 June 2026 at 12:00
See my previous post on Clava Cairns here.
Kerb Cairn:-
One of the cairns:-
A more mounded cairn:-
A tomb entrance:-
The ring cairn:-
Cairns towards back of site:-
Clava Cairns (ii) – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
6 June 2026 at 15:36
[…] See my previous post on Clava Cairns here. […]
jackdeighton
9 June 2026 at 12:00
If you carry on up the main road from the car park at Clava Cairns you reach a further much smaller cairn site accessed by a footpath. This is Milton of Clava Cairn.
Looking back to main site from road:-
Milton of Clava Cairn (and standing stone) from path:-
Milton of Clava Cairn:-
Milton of Clava Cairn – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
10 June 2026 at 20:11
[…] you carry on up the main road from the car park at Clava Cairns you reach a further much smaller cairn site accessed by a footpath. This is Milton of Clava […]
Nairn Railway Viaduct Near Inverness – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
10 June 2026 at 20:12
[…] I photographed it from the road leading to Clava Cairns:- […]