Croftcroy
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Croftcroy
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Stonehenge House
Canmore ID 13200
Site Number NH63SE 2
NGR NH 6835 3318
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13200
- Council Highland
- Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH63SE 2 6835 3318
(NH 6835 3318) Stone Circle {NR}
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)
A Clava passage-grave - the cairn is overgrown with shrubs and has been so much robbed that all the cairn material has been removed.
The kerb has a diameter of 35 ft. and the passage runs from the SSW. Fraser (J Fraser 1884) noted three large slabs, 8 ft. to 12 ft. 6" long lying outside the kerb, presumably fallen monoliths of a circle surrounding the cairn. The two to the south are no longer to be seen and that to the NE has been shifted nearer the kerb.
(J Fraser 1884; A S Henshall 1963, visited 8 April 1957).
The remains of the cairn are as described above. It is mutilated and overgrown with bushes and trees.
Survey at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J), 10 September 1963
Field Visit (17 August 1943)
Just behind Farr Post Office, on the low alluvial plan in of the Allt Beag, is the peristalith of a small chambered cairn. Within the ring are some large boulders in no discoverable order among shrubs that doubtless represent remants of some sort of chamber.
Visited by RCAHMS (VGC) 17 August 1943.
Field Visit (17 March 1993)
This Clava chambered cairn is situated in the rear garden of Stonehenge House, a modern building lying to the NE of Farr Post Office. The cairn measures about 11.5m in diameter over a kerb of boulders up to 1m in height, and the passage runs towards a central chamber from the SSW. Originally the cairn appears to have been surrounded by a stone circle, but only one fallen slab remains.
(USN93 393)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 17 March 1993.
