Scottish Highlands - Prehistoric Sites

The beautifully preserved remains of an Iron Age broch stand in a superb position overlooking the sea, with views of nearby Dunrobin Castle. Carn Liath Broch still stands to the level of the first floor, and in the field below you can easily discern the outline of a settlement.
A9, Golspie, Highlands and Islands, Scotland

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Clach an Truseil (The Trushel Stone) is the tallest standing stone in Scotland at 19 feet high (5.8m). It is all that remains of a stone circle set on a manmade earthen platform looking out to sea on the west coast of Lewis.
Ballantrushal, Isle of Lewis, Highlands and Islands, Scotland, HS2 0RG

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Heritage Highlight: The tallest standing stone in Scotland

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Clachtoll Broch (known in Gaelic as An Dun) is set on a flat ledge of rock by the shore, at the south end of Clachtoll Bay, with a possible outer defensive wall 300 feet away. Though we don't know precisely when Clachtoll Broch was built, the most likely date is sometime between 100 BC and 100 AD.
B869, Clachtoll, Highlands and Islands, Scotland, IV27 4JD

Attraction Type: Prehistoric - Broch
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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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