Looking NE at entrance to Clava NE passage grave, Inverness, surrounded by standing stones. Part of a Bronze Age linear cemetery +/- 2000BC.

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Looking NE at entrance to Clava NE passage grave surrounded by standing stones. Part of a Bronze Age cemetery of passage graves, cairns & standing stones laid out in a NE-SW line along the gravel terrace S of the River Nairn. The entrance passages of Clava-type passage graves face SW towards the midwinter solstice sunset & some of the stones are cup-marked.

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Location: Clava Cairns, Balnuaran of Clava, Inverness, Highland, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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