Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658309

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG51NW 1 5432 1768.

(NG 5432 1768) Stones (NAT)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Na Clachan Bhreige: the remains of a stone circle as described by RCAHMS except that the fourth (recumbent) stone could not be found.

Visited by OS (A C) 19 April 1961.

A polished black stone about 11/2" long, rounded in shape and somewhat resembling a pestle, was dug up from within the circle c.1860. It is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

The circle is here referred to as 'Clachan Breugach' but the same meaning 'false stones' is given.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1865.

Site recorded in the spring of 1997 during a field survey carried out by Martin Wildgoose and associates on part of the John Muir Trust's Strathaird Estate. The surveyed portion lies to the S and E of Bla Bheinn, some 3000ha of undulating lowland terrain lying between the coast and the Cuillin mountains.

NG 5432 1768 Stone circle (NG51NW 1).

A full report is lodged with the John Muir Trust. A fuller summary is lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsor: John Muir Trust.

K Miller 1998