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The central cairn is of the ring cairn sub-type, and uniquely has stone paths or causeways forming "rays" radiating out from the platform round the kerbs to three of the standing stones. The cairns incorporate cup and ring mark stones, carved before they were built into the structures. The kerb stones are graded in size and selected for colour ...
A nearby lochan gets its name from the stones: Loch nan Carraigean, or "Loch of the Standing Stones". The Highland Railway 's line to Carr Bridge runs nearby (now the preserved Strathspey Railway ), only a few yards from the outer circle on the west side; equally close on the east side runs an old path from Aviemore to Boat of Garten .
Corrimony chambered cairn, located near the village of Glen Urquhart in the Highlands of Scotland, is a well-preserved Bronze Age burial monument belonging to the group of circular chambered cairns, known as Clava cairns. The site was excavated by archaeologist Professor Stuart Piggott, in 1952. One skeleton and one artefact were uncovered ...
The Clava cairns date from this period, with about 50 cairns of this type in the Inverness area. [48] Corrimony chambered cairn near Drumnadrochit is an example dated to 2000 BC or older. The only surviving evidence of burial was a stain indicating the presence of a single body. The cairn is surrounded by a circle of 11 standing stones.
A Clava-type passage grave surrounded by a circle of 11 standing stones. [37] [38] Balnuaran of Clava: Nairn: Highland: 2000 BC Tomb The largest of three is the north-east cairn, which was partially reconstructed in the 19th century. The central cairn may have been used as a funeral pyre. [35] [39] [40] Vinquoy chambered cairn: Eday: Orkney ...
The recumbent stone circles of Scotland have been linked to an earlier type of monument erected around 3000 BC, the Clava cairns near Inverness. The type example of the monument is the three circular cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, which are surrounded by a ring of standing stones rising in height from the northeast to the southwest.
There are approximately fifty Clava cairns in Scotland, named after those at Balnuaran of Clava near Inverness. They take two distinct forms, either a circular rubble enclosure known as "ring cairns", or passage graves, with a long entrance, usually in complex astronomical alignments. [22]
The Clava cairns and standing stones near Inverness show complex geometries and astronomical alignments, with smaller, perhaps individual, tombs instead of the communal Neolithic tombs. [7] Mummies dating from 1600 to 1300 BC have been discovered at Cladh Hallan on South Uist.