Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561233
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561233
The overgrown remains of a Clava-type cairn are situated in a plantation about 300m west of the River Avon. The circular cairn, which measures about 14m in overall diameter, comprises a stony bank, which would once have been revetted on both sides by kerbs of boulders, with an open court at the centre. Originally, a circle of standing stones surrounded the cairn but only five can now be seen.
Until recently cairns of this type, which are found around Inverness and in Moray, were thought to be of Neolithic date, but excavations in the late twentieth century have shown them to belong to the Early Bronze Age.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
