Vatten Neolithic chambered cairns, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, looking S at a large kerb stone on the E side of the N cairn with the S cairn to rear.
Vatten Neolithic chambered cairns, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, looking S at a large kerb stone on the E side of the N cairn with the S cairn to rear (pointed profile). Each cairn appears to have been built on a low circular platform edged by a kerb of large stones. Neither cairn has been excavated but they have been disturbed at times & signs of upright stones & flat lintel slabs revealed. They are most probably chambered round cairns of the Hebridean group. The mounds feature in folklore as the burial place of a great chief who was brought home dead from a raiding mission, or the burial mounds of members of the MacDonald & MacLeod clans who slaughtered each other in a battle in the mist.
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Location: Vatten Chambered Cairns, Loch Caroy, Duirinish, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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