Name: Camster Round Cairn
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Location: Latheron, Lybster And Clyth, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom

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1. Cairns of Camster from Mid Clyth

19.8km

05:17

220m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Lybster loop to Hill o' Many Stanes

19.9km

05:18

210m

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christian427

October 28, 2022

Impressive grave. In 2017 it was possible to enter the tomb by crawling in. The entrance is very narrow and low of height.

Camster Round is, as the name suggests, a circular cairn; it measures 18 metres in diameter by 3.7 metres high. It is virtually intact with a high vaulted chamber at its centre, accessed from a passage 6 metres long and 0.8 metres high at the east-south-east side of the cairn. The passage appears to have been deliberately put out of use by blocking it up with stones piled up to the height of its roof. When it was excavated, archaeologists found that the floor of the cairn was composed of a 0.3 metres deep layer of black earth, ash and burnt bones. It appears that bodies were placed there in a sitting position, though, oddly, without leg bones; the legs appear either to have been removed or to have rotted off before the bodies were deposited in the cairn.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Cairns_of_Camster

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Location: Latheron, Lybster And Clyth, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom

Camster Round Cairn

1. Cairns of Camster from Mid Clyth

2. Lybster loop to Hill o' Many Stanes

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