Best of Scottish Highlands
The 5 best burial mounds & barrows in Scottish Highlands
Our curated top 5 burial mounds & barrows in Scottish Highlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 107 burial mounds & barrows see the full burial mounds & barrows index for Scottish Highlands.
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Iona Abbey
Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, off the larger Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe, and was a focal
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Arbroath Abbey
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey. It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedicati
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Fort Augustus Abbey
Fort Augustus Abbey, properly St Benedict's Abbey, at Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire, Scotland, was a Benedictine monastery, from late in the nineteenth century to 1998 that also housed a school for b
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Saddell Abbey
Saddell Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery located in western Scotland. The abbey was established in 1160 by Somerled, Lord of Kintyre, who was killed in 1164. The abbey was completed by his son,
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Iona Nunnery
The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent of nuns located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was established sometime after the foundation of the nearby Benedictine monaster