Field Visit
Date July 1979
Event ID 1131089
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Balnuaran of Clava, North-east (INV 9) NH 757 444 NH74SE 1
A Clava passage-grave within a circle of eleven standing stones (and a small earthfast. stone on the N). The cairn, measuring 16.8m over a kerb of graded boulders, is surrounded by a platform of stones extending outwards for up to 5.5m. The chamber measures 4m in diameter and is entered from the SSW. Cup-marks occur on the innermost stone of the NW side of the passage, and one of the kerb-stones on the N bears about fifty cup-marks (one of them surrounded by a single ring) together with several pecked channels.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979
(Piggott 1956, 192; Henshall 1963-72, i, 361-6; Ritchie and Maclaren 1972, 8)
