Inside large cairn at camster cairns

[highlander]

[highlander]

[stratman]

Fantastic Highlander I must visit. Thanks

[Angela]

Thanks for posting these highlander -I've not been there for .....gulp....32 years!

Must visit again soon!

[Sporran]

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]

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.





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

ATHRoss

[ATHRoss]

[highlander]

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.

[highlander]

[Bobinovich]

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 . Keep an eye here if you feel like objecting when it comes up.

[htwood]

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]

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

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.