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11/06/2019 Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP), Balnuarin of Clava NE Centre 1
Event ID 1132670
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1132670
Date fieldwork started: 11/06/2019
Compiled by: NOSAS
Balnuarin of Clava NE Centre 1
Scotland's Rock Art project ID: 3199
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. It is located high up in the N wall of the chamber of the NE cairn.
Panel notes: This panel is one of the stones which make up the wall of the chamber of the NE cairn. It is a slab of sandstone, visibly 0.6m x 0.15m thick, and of unknown depth into the wall. On its flat upper surface is one distinct cup and one other possible cup. The stones above this panel are loose and may not be in their original positions. One stone partly obscures the cup. The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns, Richard Bradley, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series Number 17, Edinburgh 2000 illus 37 p37 shows a cup mark high up in this wall, but not in this location. This panel was discovered whilst searching for the reported cup which was not located.
