Neolithic Burial Sites In Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times burials were often covered by earthern mounds or rock cairns. Many of the Neolithic tombs were used for hundreds of years, with mortuary ...

One of Scotland's ancient burial sites has been vandalised. Stones have been dislodged and graffiti written on a rock at the 4,000-year-old Clava Cairns near Culloden in the Highlands.

At over 4000 years old, Clava Cairns is "younger" than other sites on this list, but the standing stones there do pre-date the fifth stage of Stonehenge's construction, which took place between ...

Dating back to the Neolithic age - approximately 3400 to 2400 BC - long cairns are considered to have been some of the first structures constructed by communities of humans.

Stones have been dislodged and graffiti written on a rock at the Clava Cairns near Culloden. It is a highly popular site with its ring and kerb cairns, the remains of a medieval chapel and ...

'At Clava Cairns it's a long-term problem of spiritual communities going there and messing with the landscape and thinking they're entitled to do so because they're special.

Well-preserved cairns and stone circles. Eilean Donan Castle: This is one of Scotland's most photographed castles, situated on a small island at the meeting point of three sea lochs.

Dating back to the Neolithic age - approximately 3400 to 2400 BC - long cairns are considered to have been some of the first structures constructed by communities of humans.