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Achavanich Stone Setting

Six miles to the northwest of Lybster and a mile off the A9, these 30 standing stones date from around 2000 BC. The crumbling monuments still capture the imagination with their desolate location. Nearby are the remains of a burial cairn, another millennium older.

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