Tour Scotland Video Photographs Clava Cairns Near Inverness

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Clava Cairns, East of Inverness, Scotland. These cairns are a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn and these are just about the best preserved Bronze Age burial sites in Scotland. A cemetery complex of passage graves, ring cairns, kerb cairn and standing stones in a wonderful setting. There are three separate cairns here, two for holding the souls of the dead until they continue on their way in the afterlife, and one for cremating the bodies. They also served as a giant sundial and calendar for the people who lived 3500 years ago. Clava Cairns is a site in the Outlander film and book, which follows the story of Claire Randall, a married English combat nurse from 1945 who, while on her honeymoon in Inverness, is mysteriously swept back in time to the 18th century Scottish Highlands. There she meets Jamie, a chivalrous young warrior, with whom she becomes romantically entwined.

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