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Balnabual
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible), Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Balnabual
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible), Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14192
Site Number NH74NE 9
NGR NH 7798 4899
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14192
- Council Highland
- Parish Croy And Dalcross (Inverness)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74NE 9 7798 4899.
(NH 7798 4899) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
One stone about 3ft 6ins, high and inclining in a westerly direction about 30 degress.
Name Book 1869.
Balnabual (? Clava-type) is noted in Fraser's (Fraser 1884) list of 'Clava-type' cairns as fragmentary. All that could be found in a single stone 4ft long lying at the edge of a field.
(Fraser's list is of stone circles and he has no evidence that this single stone was ever part of a stone circle of cairn. Henshall, therefore, has no evidence that this was a possible Clava-type cairn.)
A S Henshall 1963, visited 15 April 1957; J Fraser 1884.
This stone is at NH 7798 4899 and no evidence could be found to associate this fallen stone with either a stone circle or Clava-type cairn.
Visited by OS (RD) 18 August 1964.
Removed about 1968.
RCAHMS 1979.
Site recorded during a survey of Dalcross Estate under the Historic Scotland Ancient Monument Survey Grant Scheme.
NH 7798 4899 Balnabual Chambered cairn.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Mr Robin Buchanan.
T Rees 1998
Field Visit (June 1978)
Balnabual (INV 7) NH779 489 NH74NE 9
Nothing now remains of what may have been a Clava cairn. In 1964 the OS recorded a single fallen monolith; this was removed about 1968.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1978
(Henshall 1963-72, i, 361)
