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Clava Cairns

General View (period Unassigned)
Clava Cairns
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Clava Cairns as General View (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Clava Cairns is a Neolithic chambered cairn complex dating to approximately 2000–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of a distinctive group of early Bronze Age funerary monuments in the northern part of the British Isles, often associated with passage tombs and standing stones.

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Photo: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0