Scottish Highlands - Prehistoric Sites
- Map of Prehistoric Sites in Highlands and Islands
- Map of ALL Prehistoric Sites in Scotland
- Map of all attractions in Highlands and Islands
Taking in the Highlands, and Scottish islands including Orkney, Shetland, Skye, and the Western Isles (Harris, Lewis, North Uist, South Uist, Benbecula, Berneray, Barra, and Eriskay).
On the level ground above the beach at Camas nan Geall stands a post-medieval burial ground, possibly erected by the Campbells of Ardslignish. Outside the burial ground stands a Neolithic or Bronze Age standing stone decorated with early Christian carvings. A prehistoric chambered cairn is a few steps away.
Camas nan Geall, B8007, Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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Heritage Highlight: Neolithic standing stone carved with an early Christian cross
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Clava Cairns is an exceptional Bronze Age burial complex, one of the most archaeologically important prehistoric sites in Scotland. Clava is a group of prehistoric burial cairns dating to around 2000 BCE, comprising ring cairns, a kerb cairn, passage graves, and standing stones. Nearby is a ruined chapel of much later date.
Newlands, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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Heritage Highlight: One of the best-preserved prehistoric sites in Scotland.
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The well-preserved remains of an Iron Age Broch and a later wheelhouse stand on a narrow neck of land jutting into Clickimin Loch, south west of Lerwick.
Lerwick, Mainland, Shetland, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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Heritage Highlight: One of the best-preserved brochs in Scotland
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A pair of Neolithic burial cairns of the 'long horn' variety. Interestingly, the two cairns are arranged at right angles to each other.
Achreamie, Thurso, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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A pair of chambered cairns stands on a hillside above the River Naver, near the northern end of Strathnaver. The cairns have a horned forecourt, used for ritual ceremonies, and a passage leading to a chamber within the tomb where bones were interred.
Skelpick, Bettyhill, Strathnaver, Highlands and Islands, Scotland, KW14 7SQ
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Heritage Highlight: Standing stones mark the cairn forecourts
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Corrimony Chambered Cairn is a superbly preserved Bronze Age passage grave in an idyllic rural location in Glen Urquhart. The burial mound is surrounded by a circle of 11 standing stones of varying height.
Corrimony, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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On a wooded hilltop above Inverness is a vitrified Iron Age hill fort built around 300 BC and later re-occupied by the Picts. Legend says that St Columba came here to convert King Brude (Bridei) to Christianity in AD 565.
Leachkin Brae, Inverness, Highlands and Islands, Scotland, IV3 8PN
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Heritage Highlight: Did St Columba convert King Brude here?
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Cuween is a chambered cairn, built in the Neolithic period, about 5,000 years ago. It is composed of a central chamber with 4 cells, reached by a low passage. When the chamber was excavated it was found to contain the remains of humans, dogs, and oxen.
Finstown, Mainland, Orkney, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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On a small manmade island in Loch Horneray, on the Isle of Grimsay, stands the ruin of Dun Ban, a fortified roundhouse. Rather than thinking of the dun as a unified tower structure, it is probably more accurate to picture a cluster of beehive cells embedded in a tower. It is interesting that there was no apparent attempt to level the internal floor; it is left very rough.
Loch Horneray, Baymore, Grimsay, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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Dun Beag is a wonderfully preserved Iron Age broch standing on a hillside with wonderful views out over Loch Harport and Loch Braccadale. The broch was apparently in use for occupation as late as the 18th century.
A863, Braccadale, Isle of Skye, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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