Mains Of Clava South-east
Ring Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Mains Of Clava South-east
Classification Ring Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Clava Cairns
Canmore ID 14264
Site Number NH74SE 16
NGR NH 76054 44569
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14264
- Council Highland
- Parish Croy And Dalcross (Inverness)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74SE 16 7605 4457.
(NH 7605 4457) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of).
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
Mains of Clava, South East: Clava-type cairn. When visited by Fraser (1884) it was already fragmentary, but he records a kerb of about 50 feet diameter and an internal ring of about 18 feet diameter. The area where it stood is now waste land ... only a few stones of the structure, heavily overgrown, can now be seen.
A S Henshall 1963, visited 9 April 1957.
There are no remains of a stone circle or cairn at the site, which is overgrown by whin and gorse bushes. There is no local knowledge of a cairn even existing here.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 August 1964.
Field Visit (July 1979)
Mains of Clava, South-east (INV 41) NH 760 445 NH74SE 16
Five stones standing to a maximum height of 0. 75m and a scatter of cairn material are all that now remains of what was probably a Clava cairn.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979
(Henshall 1963-72, i, 382)
