Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663174

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH74NE 25 7907 4720.

(NH 7907 4720) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of).

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)

One stone only remains, the remainder have been removed for building and other purposes; it is about 6ft in height, quite erect.

Name Book 1870.

Dalgrambich (? Clava-type) 6ft high, 3ft 3ins wide by 2ft thick at the base. This stone was regarded by Fraser as the last survivor of a Clava-type cairn.

J Fraser 1884; A S Henshall 1963.

This standing stone survives to a height of 1.9 metres, and is situated at the S corner of a pasture field. There are no other standing stones in the immediate vicinity although there are several large stones at the edge of the field at NH 7906 4717, and also on the SE side of the lane at NH 79104715, which may or may not have been part of this alleged cairn or stone circle.

Resurveyed at 1/2500

Visited by OS (R B) 21 August 1964.