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Clava
Iron Working Site (Period Unknown)
Site Name Clava
Classification Iron Working Site (Period Unknown)
Alternative Name(s) Allt Ruadh; Red Burn
Canmore ID 14263
Site Number NH74SE 15
NGR NH 767 444
NGR Description NH c. 767 447
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 15 c. 767 447
There is an early iron-smelting site called Thom-na-Haun (Mound of the Furnance) to the E of Clava.
W I Macadam 1893.
Not located, but probably in the vicinity of Allt Ruadh (Red Burn) at NH 767 447.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 April 1970.
Note (1979)
Dalroy NH c. 76 44 NH74SE 15
In 1887 Macadam noted what was probably a bloomery at Thom-na-Haun (Mound of the Furnace) to the E of Clava. The OS suggest that it stood near the Allt Ruadh (NH c. 767 447).
RCAHMS 1979
Macadam 1888, 234.
