11/06/2019, Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP), Balnuarin of Clava Centre Orthostat
Event ID 1132674
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Date fieldwork started: 11/06/2019
Compiled by: NOSAS
Balnuarin of Clava Centre Orthostat 1
Scotland's Rock Art Project ID: 3198
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 one of a ring of orthostats around the central ring cairn (Balnuaran of Clava Centre) and about 15m SE of its centre.
Panel notes: This standing stone is one of a ring of stones surrounding the central cairn at Clava. It is a pointed slab of gneiss, 1.8m high x 1.6m wide x 0.8m thick. The outer face has a single distinct cup and 3 much fainter possible ones. The inner face (towards the cairn) has one probable cup. Richard Bradley (The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns, Richard Bradley, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series Number 17, Edinburgh 2000 illus 14 p20) records a single cup mark on each face.
