Corrimony Chambered Cairn

Corrimony Chambered Cairn is a passage grave of about 4,000 years ago in a glen of birch woods and farmland in Glen Urquhart, eight and a half miles west of Drumnadrochit, and one of the best preserved of the Clava-type cairns found only around the Moray Firth. A great circular mound of water-worn pebbles and boulders sits inside a kerb of larger edge-set stones, ringed by eleven standing stones; a long, low passage faces south-west, as at Clava, and unlike Clava most of its roof survives, so visitors crawl through it into the round central chamber that was once corbelled over. A large cup-marked slab lying on top was probably the chamber's capstone. Excavation found the traces of a crouched burial, probably a woman, under the stone floor. Reviewers call it a hidden gem that takes fifteen to twenty minutes, park in the gravel area a hundred metres before the cairn, and ask visitors not to climb on it; the farm access can be wet.