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Clava Cairns

by vanjakom     United Kingdom > Scotland

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N 57° 28.369' W 004° 04.401' (WGS84)

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Status: Archived
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 Hidden on: 21 January 2018
 Published on: 21 January 2018
 Last update: 02 October 2019
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC1443B

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Clava Cairns are a well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery complex of passage graves; ring cairns, kerb cairns and standing stones in a beautiful setting.Clava Cairns or the Prehistoric Burial Cairns of Bulnuaran of Clava are a group of three Bronze Age cairns located near Inverness. A hugely significant and exceptionally well preserved prehistoric site, Clava Cairns is a fantastic example of the distant history of Highland Scotland, dating back about 4,000 years.


The cemetery was used in two periods. At around 2000 BC a row of large cairns was built, three of which can still be seen today. A thousand years later the cemetery was reused and new burials were placed in some of the existing cairns and three smaller monuments were built including a 'kerb cairn'. Traces of a smaller cemetery can also be seen at Milton of Clava, a short distance up the valley to the west. The cairns at Balnuaran of Clava extended along a gravel terrace raised above the River Nairn.

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OC-Team Archived 02 October 2019 Opencaching.de has archived the cache

This cache has been "temporarily unavailable" for more than 12 months now; therefore it is being archived automatically. The owner may decide to maintain the cache and re-enable the listing.

Temporarily not available 30 September 2018 vanjakom has disabled the cache

Not found 13 September 2018 Mousekiller did not find the geoacache

Spent 20 minutes looking carefully, but did not find cache in hiding place. Have messaged owner.