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highlander
15-Apr-07, 16:36
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns045.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns065.jpg

highlander
15-Apr-07, 16:41
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns070.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns074.jpg

stratman
18-Apr-07, 18:49
Fantastic Highlander I must visit. Thanks

Angela
18-Apr-07, 19:11
Thanks for posting these highlander -I've not been there for .....gulp....32 years! :roll:

Must visit again soon! :D

Sporran
18-Apr-07, 19:42
Thanks from me too, highlander! Your photos are superb! :)

I was last at Camster Cairns in 1980, when we came home from overseas to visit my parents. I still have the photos we took, including one of me inside the cairns. But they certainly weren't as good as yours!

ATHRoss
18-Apr-07, 21:10
Inspired by Highlander's Camster Cairns images, I visited the Cairn of Get for the first time.

Absolutely delighted by this example, another of our archaeological treasures on our doorstep.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2494/cairnofget1amh8.jpg

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/838/cairnofget2agg4.jpg

Well worth a visit and a short easy walk into the hill above Loch Watenan.

ATHRoss

ATHRoss
18-Apr-07, 21:11
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8893/getboard1yj7.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3995/getboard2dt5.jpg

highlander
18-Apr-07, 23:03
Thank you for posting that ATHross, i did not even know about that place untill i seen it on the map, but here is the map what it said about the large cairn.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns117.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns118.jpg

highlander
18-Apr-07, 23:08
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns123.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f397/highlander1959/13thapril2007camstercairns124.jpg

Bobinovich
19-Apr-07, 22:05
Don't want to take this off topic but there are plans afoot to litter this valuable historic area with wind turbines - of all places [disgust]. Keep an eye here (http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk) if you feel like objecting when it comes up.

htwood
20-Apr-07, 05:16
wonderful pics highlander and athross, thanks for posting them. I'd like to see cairn o get, I'd not even heard of it before.

Echidna
20-Apr-07, 08:38
Thanks for posting these fantastic photos, for someone with Caithness roots living Downunder with a lifelong interest in archaeology these contributions are priceless for making me feel closer to Hame:D

The concentric circles on the interpretation boards at the Cairn of Get, no doubt based on the pictographs, remind me of a recurring motif in Indigenous Australian art and sand engravings. Many people believe they represent waterholes, this is a modern slew on interpretation. I have been told by a reliable source that they represent the stratification of geological forms. As the cairns are ancient perhaps there is a link in consciousness between these disparate ancient peoples.