Clava Cairns
Clava Cairns gallery
Discover one of Scotland’s most evocative prehistoric sites – the exceptional remains of an ancient cemetery, set on a terrace above the River Nairn.
The Clava Cairns are about 4,000 years old and were built to house the dead.
The cemetery remained a sacred place in the landscape for millennia, and provides many clues to the beliefs of Bronze Age society.
What remains today would have once been part of a larger complex. Two parts of the complex, Balnuaran of Clava and Milton of Clava, are open to the public.
The sites contain a range of prehistoric burial monuments and the remains of a medieval chapel.
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