Ancient Archaeological Sites

This collection highlights the diverse archaeological landscape of the Scottish Highlands, spanning from Middle Jurassic dinosaur footprints at Staffin to the 19th-century ruins of Achanlochry Clearance Village. It features significant Iron Age brochs like Càrn Liath and Dun Beag, alongside Neolithic burial chambers such as the Grey Cairns of Camster. Visitors can explore Bronze Age standing stones at Rangag, the unique fan-shaped stone rows of Hill O’Many Stanes, and the suspected northernmost Roman fort in Great Britain at Cawdor.

Ancient Archaeological Sites — Harita

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Balnuaran of Clava

The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the…

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Staffin Dinosaur Footprints

Preserved Middle Jurassic footprints visible on the rocks at An Corran beach during low tide.

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Càrn Liath

Càrn Liath is an Iron Age broch on the eastern shore of the Scottish Highlands, near Golspie, Sutherland.

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Ben Tee

Ben Tee is a Scottish mountain situated in the Lochaber area of the Highland council area, some 15 kilometres north of Spean Bridge.

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Maol Chean-dearg

Maol Cheann-Dearg is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, between Upper Loch Torridon and Loch Carron, in the Coulags deer…

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Rangag Standing Stone

A solitary 2.9-meter-high megalith dating from the Bronze Age, located near the shore of Loch Rangag.

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Hill O’Many Stanes

A unique archaeological site featuring over 200 small stones arranged in at least 22 parallel rows forming a fan-like pattern.

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Dun Beag

An exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age broch on the Isle of Skye, featuring thick drystone walls and internal galleries.

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Cawdor Roman fort

Cawdor, located near the small village of Easter Galcantray, was suspected of being one of the northernmost Roman forts in Great Britain,…

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Coille na Borgie Cairns

Two Neolithic long cairns situated in the Strathnaver valley, representing early communal burial practices.

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Achcoillenaborgie Broch

The remains of an Iron Age drystone tower overlooking the River Naver.

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Nybster Broch

An Iron Age coastal fortification featuring a main tower and surrounding outbuildings, later modified with a 19th-century stone monument.

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Broch

Remains of an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure.

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Shepherd's Pile

A prominent stone cairn located on the moorland.

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Dun Neill

Ruins of a prehistoric fortification or dun located on a rocky promontory.

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Hut Circle

The stone foundation of a prehistoric circular dwelling.

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Camster Round Cairn

A Neolithic burial chamber part of the Grey Cairns of Camster, featuring a narrow passage leading to a corbelled chamber.

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Dun

Remains of a small prehistoric hillfort or fortified residence.

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Hut Circle

Foundations of an ancient circular timber or stone-walled house.

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Torr a' Chorcain Fort & Dun

A dual archaeological site featuring the remains of an Iron Age dun built within an earlier prehistoric fort.

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Carn Cran

Remains of a prehistoric burial cairn.

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Broch

Ruined Iron Age drystone tower.

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Camster Long Cairn

One of the oldest Neolithic burial structures in Scotland, measuring 60 meters long with two internal chambers.

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Camster Round Cairn

A well-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb with a corbelled roof, part of the Grey Cairns of Camster.

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Cairn O'Get

A Neolithic chambered cairn with a distinctive horned forecourt, located near the Whaligoe Steps.

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Achanlochry Clearance Villge

Ruins of a traditional settlement abandoned during the 19th-century Highland Clearances.

Ruined Broch

Remains of an Iron Age defensive drystone tower.

Ruined Broch

Foundations of a prehistoric hollow-walled stone tower.

Site of Broch

The archaeological remains of a former Iron Age defensive structure.