Clach Bhan
Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Clach Bhan
Classification Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 12588
Site Number NH53NW 11
NGR NH 50317 39901
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12588
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH53NW 11 5031 3991.
(NH 5031 3991) Clach Bhan (TI)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
Cup-marked stone.
Name Book 1872
'Clachbhane' is a slab of grey gneiss split in two, one half bearing 13 cups, the other none.
W Jolly 1882
Only 9 cup marks are now visible on the upper face of "Clach Bhan".
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 December 1964
Note (12 December 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 12/12/2019
Compiled by: NOSAS
Location Notes: The panel is situated at the NW corner of an open grassy field of improved pasture behind the croft house Clach Bhan, and about 250m NW of the house. Immediately W and close by the panel are two large mature conifers. A plantation of similar conifers continues over the fence to the NW.
Panel Notes: The panel is a large flat slab of schist measuring 5.2 x 3.4m and 1.1m high, and sloping gently to the N. It is broken into two approximately equal sized pieces along a wide N-S crack. The surface has been weathered so that the folds in the gneiss show up as sinuous ridges, and some of the cupmarks are carved in the folds. The W section has 12 cup marks. The E section has no cup marks and the moss was not cleared from that area.
