Avielochan
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  Avielochan Location within the Badenoch and Strathspey area | |
| OS grid reference | NH905165 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Avielochan (Scottish Gaelic : Aghaidh an Lochain) is a hamlet in the historical county of Inverness-shire, within the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located north of Aviemore, on the A9 road. The area is noted for its prehistoric cairn.
Avielochan is located in Strathspey [1] in central, northern Scotland, within the Cairngorms National Park. The village is located south of Kinveachy and north of Granish. [2] The settlement takes its name from the body of water Avie Lochan [3] (meaning "the small lake of Avie) archaically named Loch-na- mhoon, measuring about 90 yards long, and 50 across. [4] Prior to the great floods in 1829, there was a floating island on the loch measuring about 30 yards across. [4] It attracts ospreys during the spring and summer months and goldeneye, coot and Slavonian grebe, amongst others. [5] Red squirrel, red deer, roe deer, black grouse and capercaillie inhabit the area. [5]
Avelochan Farm lets out self-catering cottages during the warmer months of the year to tourists. [5] The farm itself covers an area of 270 hectares, with arable fields, rough grazing and woodland. [6] At certain times in the year it has around 80 cattle and some 60 Cheviot ewes which are crossed with a Suffolk tup before they are sold in early autumn. [6] One building of note is Clach Mhor (meaning 'big stone' in Gaelic) which is located on the edge of the village. [7]
The area is noted for its prehistoric chamber tomb stones which are said to be particularly old by some sources, although they have not been dated reliably. [8] [9] The site contains a cairn which is very circular in shape except for a slight flattening at the entrance, where part of a lignite amulet has been unearthed. [9] [10] The tumulus is about 40 feet in diameter. [1]
The cairn is said to be "aligned" with Glen Einich, and has views of the Cairngorm Mountains. [11]
A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are found throughout Britain and Ireland, with the largest number in Scotland.
A cairn is a man-made pile of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn[ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ].
Scalpay is an inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland which has a population of 4.
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Cairngorms National Park is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of two national parks established by the Scottish Parliament, after Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, which was set up in 2002. The park covers the Cairngorms range of mountains, and surrounding hills. Already the largest national park in the United Kingdom, in 2010 it was expanded into Perth and Kinross.
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The Pettigarths Field Cairns is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting, northeastern Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is located approximately 140 metres (460 ft) to the northwest of Benie Hoose. The site contains upright stones as well as masonry. The south cairn is roughly 6 metres (20 ft) square, with an eastern entrance passage and circular chamber about 2 metres across. 4 metres (13 ft) to the north is a round cairn, 4.5 metres (15 ft) in diameter, with a rectangular cist. The two cairns are located on a rise, about 140 metres (460 ft) northwest of Benie Hoose.
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