Upper Camster

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Upper Camster
Upper Camster is located in Caithness
Upper Camster
Upper Camster
Location within the Caithness area
OS grid referenceND262414
Council area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Postcode districtKW3 6
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FireScottish
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58°21′18″N 3°15′42″W / 58.35509°N 3.26174°W / 58.35509; -3.26174Coordinates: 58°21′18″N 3°15′42″W / 58.35509°N 3.26174°W / 58.35509; -3.26174

Upper Camster is a small hamlet, which lies at the source of the , 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]

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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.


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