Grey Cairns of Camster

The Cairns of Camster lie in Caithness in the Scottish Highlands north of Lybster and consist of the round and the long cairn, which are 200 meters apart ( ND24SE 1 2601 4420 ). Known as the " gray Cairns " plants stood out against the brown moorland clearly from before The current forest was planted.

The round hill

The Round Hill has about 18 m in diameter and 3.7 m high. It covers an intact tombs chamber type of Scottish passage, whose entrance is in the flattened facade of the east side. The nearly six -meter-long corridor leads to the polygonal antechamber. A portal indicates the input of the regions consisting of two main chamber. The short end is partitioned off by a lateral couplet in a narrower part, and a single large panel forms the Endmauer. The roof is, apart from the installation of a modern roof window intact.

Anderson and Shearer found in 1886 during excavations human bones, pottery and flint tools on the chamber floor. The plant had been filled with earth and stones, as the use had ended.

The long hill

The long hill on the type Orkney - Cromarty (OC ) is a two- periodic Monument, an afterthought, slightly trapezoidal superstructure via two round hills. One of them has stone chambers, one of which comes as close as one of the architectural design of the system in the round hill. The other is much smaller and unarticulated. Both are located in the wider north-eastern part of the 69.5 m long and 16.8 m wide stone hill, which is arched in the former Round Hill area. Can be found at both ends of atria, similar to the "Horned or Lobster Cairns ". This construction was discovered by the excavations of 1971-1973 Corcoran and Masters 1976-1980 and reconstructed. The chambers are entered from the eastern long side and illuminated by modern skylight.

The plants have been built about 3500 BC. At the south end of the grave mound fire areas of different size were discovered lying in the extension of the hill axis and contained pottery. Show the C-14 data suggest that the activity in the first centuries of the 4th millennium (around 2950 BC) took place.