Perfect for midwinter mystics.
Just a mile or so from the newly modernised Culloden Battlefield visitor centre, with its thousands of visitors and large car park and other 21st century facilities, is the small but perfectly formed and well preserved 4,000-year- old burial site of Clava Cairns with ring cairns and standing stones.
The site is tucked away in a valley close to the Nairn river and in sight of a high railway viaduct.
When we visited it on a bright, frozen New Year's Day it was under a blue sky and the low winter sun cast long shadows from the standing stones. Visit on Midwinter Solstice and watch the sun send rays of light along the entrance passages and illuminate the back wall of the ancient burial mounds.

www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyresults/propertydetail.htm?PropID=PL_067&PropName=Clava%20Cairns
Google map: bit.ly/nL6OdI

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