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Balnuaran of Clava (The Clava Cairns)

Clava Cairns, Inverness

• Nearest town: Inverness
• Nearest village: Balnuaran
• OS Map: 27
• OS Map reference: NH757445

A cup-marked stone
in one of the cairns

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One of the Highlands' better known prehistoric sites, the cairns found here have lent their name to a whole class of monument, the Clava Cairns. Another example of this type of cairn fifty or so miles to the north-west is Corrimony. The cairns are surrounded by stone circles.

BBC News: Friday, 7 January, 2000 Belgian tourist who took a stone from an ancient Scottish burial site has returned it after complaining it had cursed his family.

Access: Well signposted

Rating: General Impression 3, Ambience 4, Access 4

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