Key Places - Cairngorms & Speyside - Self-Guided

7 Day: Self-Guided : Road/Touring

Clava Cairns

Nearby is Clava Cairns, a well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery complex of passage graves; ring and kerb cairns and standing stones in a scenic location. Around 2000 BC a row of large cairns was built, three of which remain today. Use of the cemetery resumed about 100 years later; new burials were placed in some of the existing cairns. Three smaller monuments were built including a 'kerb cairn'. Remains of a smaller cemetery can also be seen at Milton of Clava, a short distance away.  Archaeological excavations have found evidence of farming on the site before any of these monuments were built.