Upper Camster is a small hamlet, which lies at the source of the
Camster Burn, 4 miles north of
Lybster, in
Caithness
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Caithness has a land boundary with the historic county of Sutherland to the west and is otherwise bounded by ...
,
Scottish Highlands and is in the
Scottish
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*Scottish English
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council area of
Highland.
The
Grey Cairns of Camster are two large
Neolithic chambered cairn
A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are fo ...
s located about quarter of a mile north of Upper Camster. The cairns, which are considered to be examples of the Orkney-Cromarty type of chambered cairn, were constructed in the third or fourth millennium BC in a desolate stretch of boggy peat-covered moorland in the
Flow Country of Caithness.
Gallery
File:A Neolithic burial long cairn at Camster.jpg, Camster Long Cairn, Upper Camster
File:Camster Cairns - geograph.org.uk - 431568.jpg, Burial chamber inside Camster Long.
File:Camster Cairns.JPG, Camster Cairns.
File:The Grey Cairns of Camster - geograph.org.uk - 675.jpg, The Grey Cairns of Camster. These cairns are open to the public.
File:Camster Long Cairn 20090613.jpg, Grey Cairns of Camster, Caithness, Scotland - Camster Long Cairn, exterior
File:Towards Camster - geograph.org.uk - 582899.jpg, Remote road the in the flow country
References
Populated places in Caithness
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