04/07/2019, Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP), Balnuarin of Clava NE Centre 2
Event ID 1132650
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Date fieldwork started: 04/07/2019
Compiled by: NOSAS
Balnuarin of Clava NE Centre 2
Scotland's Rock Art Project ID: 3200
Location notes: This panel is part of the complex of monuments at Clava ('Clava cairns'), well known and much frequented by visitors. There is a car park and interpretation. It is located on a level river terrace to the SE of the river Nairn, in the flat bottom of the SW to NE valley. The panel is situated in the NE cairn at Clava, at the top of the inner chamber wall on the NW side. The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns, Richard Bradley, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series Number 17, Edinburgh 2000 shows its location in illus 37 p37.
Panel notes: The panel is a flat slab of sandstone, 0.27m wide x 0.05m thick, and extending back into the wall about 0.036m. There is a single well-formed cup, with a possible ring around it. At the top of the wall, it is a loose stone and may not be in its original position.
