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Clava
Ring Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Clava
Classification Ring Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Clava Cairns
Canmore ID 14259
Site Number NH74SE 11
NGR NH 75846 44417
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Croy And Dalcross (Inverness)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74SE 11 7585 4441.
(NH 7585 4441) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 25"map, (1965)
This oval stone-walled hut, on the edge of a modern field, measures c. 13.0m ESE-WNW by c. 11.5m between the centres of a wall spread to c. 3.0m all round. Details of the hut are obscured by later stone clearance and no entrance can be seen, although Jolly noted "the usual opening to the SSE".
Surveyed at 1:2500.
W Jolly 1882; Visited by OS (W D J) 25 April 1962 and (N K B) 15 April 1970.
A circular earthwork SE of the guardianship enclosure, which is currently recorded as a 'hut circle', was examined by small- scale excavation and proved to be the remains of a ring-cairn. Four of the outer kerb stones still survived, together with a broad bank of rubble. It seems likely that the monument was constructed in two phases. The first involved the construction of the cairn from surface boulders. In a later phase the interior was excavated and soil was piled against the outer kerb of the monument. This material included a small amount of cremated bone and contained a number of sandstone slabs - a feature which was also recognised in the ring-cairn within the guardianship enclosure.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland and Reading University with assistance from Highland Archaeology Service.
R Bradley 1996
Field Visit (April 1979)
Balnuarin NH758444 NH74SE 11
This hut-circle stands 200m ENE of Balnuarin farmhouse; it measures about 10.5m in diameter within a wall 0.8m thick. There are several stones set along the crest of the SW arc of the wall.
RCAHMS 1979, visited April 1979
(Jolly 1882, 302)
