Upper Camster

Upper Camster
Upper Camster
	Upper Camster Location within the Caithness area
OS grid reference	ND262414
Council area	Highland;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	KW3 6
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish

Upper Camster is a small hamlet, which lies at the source of the Camster Burn, 4 miles north of Lybster, in Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.[1]

The Grey Cairns of Camster are two large Neolithic chambered cairns 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.[2]

Gallery

Camster Long Cairn, Upper Camster
Burial chamber inside Camster Long.
Camster Cairns.
The Grey Cairns of Camster. These cairns are open to the public.
Grey Cairns of Camster, Caithness, Scotland - Camster Long Cairn, exterior
Remote road in the flow country

References

Microsoft; Nokia (4 January 2018). "Upper Camster" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
"Grey Cairns of Camster". Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

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[1] Microsoft; Nokia (4 January 2018). "Upper Camster" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

[2] "Grey Cairns of Camster". Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 4 January 2018.