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View showing the Centre ring-cairn with the SW passage-grave in the background.

SC 438449

Description View showing the Centre ring-cairn with the SW passage-grave in the background.

Catalogue Number SC 438449

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 94169 CS

Scope and Content Chambered cairn, Balnuaran of Clava Centre, Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire Three cairns lie in woodland on a NE to SW axis, each cairn having a kerb of large boulders and is surrounded by a circle of standing stones. A number of stones bearing cup-marks were built into the structure of these cairns. View showing the Centre ring-cairn with the SW passage-grave in the background. The Centre cairn has an outer kerb, an inner kerb and a surrounding circle of standing stones. It was excavated in 1953 by S Piggott. Chambered cairns belong to the Neolithic, the period of the first farming peoples of Scotland, and were the burial places for local communities. The earliest tombs were built around 4000 BC, but the Clava monuments appear to date to around 2000 BC. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/438449

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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