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- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-131 668 8600Step into a tomb with a history spanning 5,000 years of human activity. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-0131 668 8600etween Golspie and Brora is Carn Liath, the Grey Cairn. This broch occupies a terrace overlooking the shore, has walls that are still 12ft high in places, and comes complete with a well preserved entrance passage and lintelled doorway. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +What you find is an intriguing doughnut shaped structure some 60ft in diameter surrounded by standing stones and, perhaps, by a shallow ditch and low mound. The central cairn is well defined and made from fairly weathered rocks. In the centre of the cairn is a circular chamber, now open to the sky, reached via a low passage which enters Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 1667 460232Email: info@deancemetery.org.ukBuilt some 4,000 years ago, Corrimony Cairn is a passage grave of the Clava type dating from the 3rd Millenium BC. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 131 332 1496Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh is a place of tranquility and unique beauty that today carries out funerals with the same sense of quiet dignity that it has been providing since it opened its gates in 1846. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-1316644314Ancient cemetery with over 500,000 should buried there. Covenanters Prison located there as well. Documented as the most haunted place on earth. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +Most people don’t visit Kilmartin Church for its own sake, however. Standing beneath the front of the Malcolm of Poltalloch Loft are two magnificent stone crosses, with part of a third set against the wall behind. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +The burial ground was opened in 1718, and is the resting place of several notable Scots, including philosopher David Hume, scientist John Playfair, rival publishers William Blackwood and Archibald Constable, and clergyman Dr Robert Candlish. It is also the site of the Political Martyrs’ Monument, an obelisk erected to the memory of a number of political reformers, and Scotland’s American Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 1479 821944Email: oldkirk@nethybridge.comThe Old Kirk Yard has more than 430 memorial and grave stones naming more than 1400 individuals. Of these 1400, some 150 people are recorded as dying before 1855 and therefore before statutory death registration was introduced to Scotland. These gravestone inscriptions could be the only record of their very existence. The inscriptions are an extremely valuable record of the Read more...