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Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in Scotland, United Kingdom
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Achnabreck Rock Art Sites
Lochgilphead, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a series of natural rock outcrops in a forest above Kilmartin Glen, the most extensive prehistoric carvings in Scotland lie open to the sky....
Auchagallon Curved Cairn
Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the west coast of the Isle of Arran, on a shelf of hillside above Machrie Bay, fifteen upright stones form a circle around the remains of a Bronze Age burial cairn....
Auchencar Standing Stone
Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the west coast of the Isle of Arran, where the coastal road runs between the mountains and the sea, a tall blade of red sandstone rises from a sheep field near...
Backies Broch
Golspie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a rocky hillock above the village of Golspie, the remains of Backies Broch look out over the Moray Firth and the North Sea....
Ballygowan Rock Art
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a natural rock outcrop above Kilmartin Glen, more than seventy cup and ring marks dimple a surface that has not changed in five thousand years....
Ballymeanoch Neolithic site, Kilmartin Glen
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In Kilmartin Glen, where more than 350 ancient monuments cluster within six miles of a quiet village, Ballymeanoch holds its ground with particular intensity....
Baluachraig Cup and Ring Marks
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
On exposed rock outcrops in Kilmartin Glen, Neolithic hands pecked cup-shaped hollows and concentric rings into the stone some five thousand years ago....
Banks Chambered Tomb
South Ronaldsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the windswept southern tip of South Ronaldsay, a Neolithic community quarried a tomb from solid bedrock and used it for three centuries to bury their dead....
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On Rousay's southern coast, a short walk from the road, Blackhammer Chambered Cairn sits beneath its modern protective shelter....
Broch of Borwick
Sandwick, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Broch of Borwick stands on a crumbling headland above the Atlantic on Orkney's west coast, a stone tower built around 500 BC and occupied for over a thousand years....
Broch of Burrian
North Ronaldsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
At the southernmost tip of North Ronaldsay, Orkney's most remote inhabited island, the remains of an Iron Age broch stand on a low rocky promontory....
Broch of Gurness
Evie, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Broch of Gurness rises from a rocky promontory on Orkney's northwest coast, overlooking the turbulent waters of Eynhallow Sound....
Broch of Mousa
Mousa, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the small, uninhabited island of Mousa in Shetland, a stone tower has stood for over two thousand years almost exactly as its builders left it....
Brora Pictish Cairn
Brora, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the hills above the coastal town of Brora in Sutherland, a cairn attributed to the Pictish period stands as one of the least-documented monuments in a landscape dense...
Bruan Broch
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a low rise beside the A99 in Scotland's far north, a grass-covered mound conceals the remains of an Iron Age broch....
Burraland Broch
Trondra, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the eastern coast of Mainland Shetland, the ruins of Burraland Broch stand on a promontory above Mousa Sound....
Burroughston Broch
Shapinsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
At the northeastern corner of Shapinsay, far from the island's small settlement, Burroughston Broch stands on a hillock above the sea....
Cairn of Get
Ulbster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a windswept hillside in Scotland's far north, a stone chamber has held its silence for over five thousand years....
Camster Cairns
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the windswept peatlands of Caithness, two stone cairns rise from the heather as they have for over five thousand years....
Camster Cairns - The Long Cairn
Part of Camster Cairns
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
Camster Long rises from the open peatland of Caithness like a stone vessel set down on the moor and forgotten by all but the wind....
Camster Cairns - The Round Cairn
Part of Camster Cairns
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the peatlands of Caithness, a circular mound of grey stone rises from the heather....
Carn Liath Broch
Golspie, Scotland, United Kingdom
Where the A9 hugs the coast between Golspie and Brora, a circular stone tower rises from a low headland overlooking the North Sea....
Carrol Broch
Brora, Scotland, United Kingdom
Above Loch Brora in Sutherland, where the strath opens between hills of heather and birch, the ruins of Carrol Broch stand on a raised clearing surrounded by forest....
Clava Cairns
Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
Set in a woodland clearing near Inverness, the Clava Cairns stand as monuments to Bronze Age beliefs about death and rebirth....
Corrimony Cairn
Drumnadrochit, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hidden in a quiet Highland glen, Corrimony Chambered Cairn has kept watch over its buried dead for four thousand years....
Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Aberfeldy
Aberfeldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the shores of Loch Tay, three concentric rings of stone mark a place held sacred for five millennia....
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Kirkwall, Scotland, United Kingdom
On Cuween Hill, a few miles west of Kirkwall on Mainland Orkney, a low passage leads into the earth and opens into a chambered tomb five thousand years old....
Dun Beag, Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Struan, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a windswept hilltop above Struan, the dry-stone walls of Dun Beag have stood for over two thousand years....
Dunamuck North Stone Row
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the flat ground west of the River Add, where Kilmartin Glen opens into moorland and rough pasture, Dunamuck North Stone Row stands in quiet witness....
Dunamuck South Stone Row
Kilmichael Glassary, Scotland, United Kingdom
On level ground beside the River Add, two massive stone slabs stand where Bronze Age hands raised them four thousand years ago....
Dunbeath Broch
Dunbeath, Scotland, United Kingdom
Where the Dunbeath Water meets the Houstry Burn in the strath of Caithness, a drystone tower has stood for over two thousand years....
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In one of Scotland's most concentrated sacred landscapes, Dunchraigaig Cairn has held the dead for four thousand years....
Dwarfie Stane (Dwarf's Stone)
Hoy, Scotland, United Kingdom
In a steep-sided valley on the island of Hoy, a massive block of red sandstone lies in desolate peatland....
Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland
Staffa Island, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the uninhabited island of Staffa, a sea cave lined with hexagonal basalt columns has drawn pilgrims for over two centuries....
Giants' Graves
Whiting Bay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the eastern slopes of the Isle of Arran, above the village of Whiting Bay, two Neolithic chambered cairns stand in a clearing among the trees....
Glebe Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Glebe Cairn marks the northern entrance to Kilmartin Glen's linear cemetery, a two-kilometre alignment of burial monuments built and rebuilt across fifteen centuries....
Healabhal Mhor, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Dunvegan, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the Duirinish peninsula of Skye, Healabhal Mhor rises with a summit so flat it resembles a natural altar open to the sky....
Hill o' Many Stanes
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a low hill near the village of Mid Clyth in Caithness, approximately two hundred small standing stones are arranged in twenty-two rows that fan outward as they run down...
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Sumburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
At the southern tip of Mainland Shetland, where the land narrows to a low promontory above the sea, the ruins of Jarlshof spread across a headland that humans have called...
Kilmichael Glassary Cup and Ring Marks
Lochgilphead, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a sloping rock outcrop beside a village school in Argyll, over one hundred and fifty carvings wait in the stone....
Kilphedir Broch
Kilphedir, Scotland, United Kingdom
High on a hillock above the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, a broch of pink granite commands views up and down the valley....
Kinnell stone circle, Killin
Killin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In a quiet pasture east of Killin village, six standing stones have held their positions for perhaps four thousand years....
Knap of Howar
Papa Westray, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western shore of Papa Westray, one of Orkney's smallest inhabited islands, two stone buildings stand with their doorways facing the sea....
Knowe of Lairo
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southwestern hillside of Rousay, overlooking Eynhallow Sound and the tidal island whose Norse name means Holy Island, the Knowe of Lairo stretches over forty-five...
Knowe of Yarso
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
High on a hillside above Eynhallow Sound, the Knowe of Yarso commands views that stretch across the water to Mainland Orkney and the hills beyond....
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western coast of the Isle of Arran, a walk of a mile and a half across open moorland brings you to six stone circles arranged on a broad, flat expanse beneath the...
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom
On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....
Midhowe Broch
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western coast of Rousay, where two steep gullies cut into the shoreline, a broch stands within its own small settlement....
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