Qualla: Clava cairns of Aviemore https://qualla.com/clava-cairns-of-aviemore en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/m/clava-cairns-of-aviemore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Clava cairns of Aviemore https://qualla.com/clava-cairns-of-aviemore Clava cairns of Aviemore: Introduction https://qualla.com/clava-cairns-of-aviemore/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. In 1906, a Yorkshire-born schoolmaster who had become an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society walked the ground around Aviemore taking notes. Caleb George Cash recorded three Clava-type cairns in or near the town — sealed Bronze Age burial monuments, used once for their original purpose and never reopened for further interments or ceremonies. None of the three is as celebrated as the famous Clava cairns near Inverness that gave the type its name. None has been excavated by modern archaeology. All three are in various states of disrepair, encroached upon by farming, housing, and railway. But together they form something more telling than any single intact monument would: a quiet pattern of prehistoric ritual landscape that has survived, more or less, into a town now better known for ski lifts and steam trains.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/m/clava-cairns-of-aviemore-wp/gfjm-clava-cairns-of-aviemore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Clava cairns of Aviemore: Delfour, Mistaken for a Pile of Stones https://qualla.com/clava-cairns-of-aviemore/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. Four miles south-west of Aviemore railway station, two miles north-northeast of the now-closed Kincraig station, the Delfour stone circle sits near what in 1906 was a working cottage. Cash's description is harsh and revealing: the circle's condition was already "ruinous" by his v...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/m/clava-cairns-of-aviemore-wp/gfjm-clava-cairns-of-aviemore-delfour-mistaken-for-a-pile-of-stones.mp3 0:06 2 full Clava cairns of Aviemore: Aviemore, Hiding in a Housing Estate https://qualla.com/clava-cairns-of-aviemore/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The Aviemore stone circle, which Cash described as a cairn within three concentric rings of stones, sits today in an unlikely setting: inside a modern housing estate just off the main A95 road in the town. The outer circle, of detached upright megaliths, is roughly visible. The c...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/m/clava-cairns-of-aviemore-wp/gfjm-clava-cairns-of-aviemore-aviemore-hiding-in-a-housing-estate.mp3 0:06 3 full Clava cairns of Aviemore: Grenish and the Loch of the Standing Stones https://qualla.com/clava-cairns-of-aviemore/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The Grenish circle lies a little over two miles east-northeast of Aviemore railway station, 350 yards east of the main road, in open uneven moorland. A small lochan nearby gets its name from the stones themselves: Loch nan Carraigean, the Loch of the Standing Stones — a place whe...

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