The Clava Cairns are about 4,000 years old and were built to house the dead. 5 Internal Links: External Links: Image: Craigh na Dun submitted by Klingon Craigh na Dun (or Craig na Dun) is a fictional stone circle said to be near Inverness. 06/07/2015 This post may contain affiliate links.

It features in the Outlander book and TV series, where a woman uses the stones to pass back through time. Overlooking the actual city of Inverness, Scotland, this hill does have a single standing stone at its top that dates back to the Neolithic Age. Diana Gabaldon explains the Outlander theory of the existence of standing stones, describes the Scottish clan system, and shares a secret about a hoped for new book project. The Callanish Stones feature on multi-day tours of the Outer Hebrides departing from Edinburgh or Inverness. Saved from fuckyeahvikingsandcelts.tumblr.com. Clicking on a marker will reveal the name of the standing stone and a link to a page about it. Recently I watched Outlander on Amazon Prime and it left me wanting to visit some of the beautiful locations used in the series. The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland.There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness. Even the colour and texture of the stones seems to have been carefully selected to highlight the sunset on the shortest day of the year. Public transit is not available, so travelers without a car are best going as part of an organized tour.

Clava Cairns. Answer 1 of 8: Don't laugh at me. Further below is an alphabetical list of the standing stones in Scotland that have been added to the Stravaiging around Scotland ancient sites database. The site of Finlaggan located near Port Askaig is also worth a visit. Here in Scotland the Callanish Standing Stones is the ideal place to enjoy the longest day and watch the sun both set and rise within a few short hours. You can see the distribution of standing stones on the map below, and you can zoom in to find particular sites.

They are about 4,000 years old, so this burial ground one of the oldest well-preserved sites in Scotland. Like a lot of viewers it also left me wondering if there were actually any standing stones near Inverness.

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Callanish stone circle, Hebrides. While the stone itself is not visually impressive, the view from the top of the hill is nice as seen in these photos on the Inverness Outlanders blog. The word ‘solstice’ comes from the Latin word ‘solstitum,’ which translates to the ‘sun standing still.’ On the longest day the sun stops moving northward and it signals that each day will shorten in increments. I love the Diana Gabaldon, 'Outland' series of books, and wondered if there really were any standing stones or a henge near Inverness…

Clava Cairns and Standing Stones near Inverness. The standing stones around the cairns also point to this, for they are graded in height with the tallest facing the setting sun in the south west and the lowest on the opposite side.