11/06/2019, Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP), Balnuarin of Clava NE Passage 2
Event ID 1132651
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1132651
Date fieldwork started: 11/06/2019
Compiled by: NOSAS
Balnuarin of Clava NE Passage 2
Scotland's Rock Art Project ID: 3201
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 located halfway along the passage into the NE cairn on the NW side.
Panel notes: This panel is one of the orthostats in the passage of the NE cairn at Clava, sandstone, and about 0.9m high x 0.8m broad. Photogrammetry reveals several very worn possible cups on the panel. It is recorded (The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns, Richard Bradley, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series Number 17, Edinburgh 2000) on p33: "Cup-marked stones were identified on two orthostats on the north side of the entrance passage. One of these panels also included a cup-and-ring mark". This one is shown as having 'two or more cups' (illus 33 p34), the other panel mentioned is ScRAP 3099. No sketch is provided in the publication.
