Cemetery Lovers, Add These 5 Scottish Burial Sites to Your List!

🪦 Welcome to Grave Stories with Dr Karell King — where we explore cemeteries and graveyards, monument symbolism, and the forgotten stories from historic burial places.

In today’s episode, we explore five fascinating types of burial grounds in Scotland — from Neolithic chambered cairns to abandoned kirkyards — each with unique insights into Scottish history, ancestral memory, and evolving funerary traditions.

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📍 Location: Cambuskenneth Abbey (Stirling), Nellfield Cemetery, Allenvale Cemetery, St Nicholas Kirkyard, Maryculter Kirkyard, St Peter's Cemetery & Churchyard (Aberdeen), Clava Cairns (Inverness), Corrimony Chambered Cairn, Rothiemurchus, and rural clan burial grounds across Northeast Scotland (ask for specific burial locations).
📜 Topics covered: Scottish kirkyards, ancient chambered cairns, Victorian cemeteries, clan and family grave plots, abandoned burial grounds, cemetery exploration, cultural memory.

⏳ Chapters
00:00 Exploring Scotland’s Historic Burial Grounds
00:51 Kirkyards: Traditional Scottish Churchyards & Gravestone History
01:38 Chambered Cairns: Neolithic Burial Sites & Ancient Rituals in Scotland
02:21 Modern Cemeteries: Victorian Cemetery Culture
03:15 Family Burial Grounds: Scottish Clan Plots & Private Ancestral Graves
03:51 Disused Kirkyards: Abandoned Cemeteries, Forgotten Histories
04:18 Why Burial Grounds Still Matter Today

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🎓 About This Channel
Grave Stories with Dr Karell King explores cemeteries not as places of silence, but as archives of human experience. Join me as we uncover forgotten lives, symbolic gravestones, burial practices, and the ways our ancestors shaped — and were shaped by — their world.

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🎥 Research & Production by Dr Karell King

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