Clava Cairns consists of a line of three Neolithic cairns on the south shore of the river Nairn, and they stand in a tree lined grove. The massive North-Eastern passage grave is surrounded by a stone circle in the style of Newgrange, and eleven of those stones survive. One of the kerbstones bears cup markings. The passageway into the chamber has a mid-winter sunset alignment. The central cairn is over 100 feet in diameter and has large kerbstones and turfed cairn-causeways. There have been excavations aplenty, in 1828-29, 1854, 1876, 1881 and in 1953. The 1953 excavation uncovered a shallow grave over which had been placed a layer of white quartz pebbles.

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