Field Visit
Date 17 August 1943
Event ID 968087
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/968087
‘Stone Circle’, Mains of Gask, stands close to the Inverness-Farr road S. of the farm buildings on the crest of a low ridge overlooking the Nairn valley. It consists of an outer ring of 8 freestanding stones, the largest, to the S, being an immense slab 10'6" high x 10' wide x 1'3" thick pointed at the apex. Within this outer circle close-set blocks on end, about 2'0" to 3'0" high, form an apparently continuous ring 85' in diameter. This is the peristalith of a cairn now reduced to a virtually flat-topped mound only 3' high and covered with grass and groups of large naked stones. But 2 slabs on edge protruding through the grass 16' from the centre and set at an angle might well be the remnants of the uprights bounding a closed central chamber.
Visited by RCAHMS 17 August 1943
