Posted in Bridges, Trips at 12:00 on 10 June 2026
This carries the main line north/south to/from Inverness over the River Nairn. Another of those magnificent Victorian engineering achievements, the longest masonry viaduct in Scotland. I can count at least seventeen arches, but apparently there are 29.
It seems to be called the Nairn, Clava or Culloden Moor Viaduct.
I photographed it from the road leading to Clava Cairns:-

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Posted in Trips at 12:00 on 6 June 2026
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:-

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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:-

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