http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/7539/st_kilda.html

Guess you'd need to caveat 'lowland site' since no doubt there are upland cairns in Scotland which would take a day's walking to get to!

I guess Rubh an Dunan on Skye is about as remote as I can handle... near on an 8 mile round walk from the nearest road:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1700/rubh_an_dunain.html

Hi nix,

Like Gladders says, it depends what is meant by remote. Do remote cairns a few thousand feet up count? Or is remote defined by how far a site is from a road or a habitable building? Or is it the remotest place from the accepted main roads?

It's all dependent.

All the best,
TE.

About 25 years ago myself and the OH came across what looked like a regular BA burial cairn on Eilan Tioram (NM 859 953) at the head of Loch Nevis in Knoydart. This was two days solid tramping from the road at Glenfinnan (the Harry Potter viaduct) and about as physically remote as you can find yourself in the UK.

http://binged.it/146tuMA

There is to the North East end of Eilan Tioram (which means "Dry Island") a small enclosure marked on the OS.

http://binged.it/17ka2OG

It is a much overgrown and long forgotten boneyard with hand carved grave slabs which we stumbled across. They were buried under feet of bracken, moss and peat and pre-date the Clearances. A few hundred yards away to the North East there is the Highland Clearance village of Carnoch which still stands with some of the houses intact up to the eaves.

There is nothing on Canmore which refers to a cairn on Eilan Tioram. Maybe we were mistaken. We thought it might be a part of a continuing tradition (the ground is very boggy) of burials on solid ground of the "dry island" away from settlement and agriculture. I'd love to go back and check, though I'm not sure twenty five years on these legs will get me there and back.