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Clava

Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Clava

Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Clava Cairns

Canmore ID 14280

Site Number NH74SE 5

NGR NH 75950 44614

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view of Strathnairn, looking W over Nairn Viaduct, E of Inverness.
Oblique aerial view of Strathnairn, looking W over Nairn Viaduct, E of Inverness.General oblique aerial view of the middle part of Strathnairn with the northern part of the Great Glen fault at the top of the view, looking SW.Aerial view of Nairn railway viaduct, looking E.Clava, NH74SE 5, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoClava, NH74SE 5, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoClava, NH74SE 5, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Croy And Dalcross (Inverness)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH74SE 5 7594 4461.

(NH 7594 4461) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)

This possible Clava-type cairn (Henshall 1963), in the Clava cemetery group, in the centre of a flat field beside the River Nairn, is now completely removed except for a single standing stone, 6'6" high. It was in this state when listed by Fraser (1884) as the remains of a stone circle.

J Fraser 1884; A S Henshall 1963.

As described.

Visited by OS (W D J) 25 April 1962.

Activities

Field Visit (April 1979)

Mains of Clava, North-west (INV 40) * NH 759 446 NH 74 SE 5

A single standing stone 1.8m high is all that now remains of what was probably a Clava

cairn.

RCAHMS 1979, visited April 1979

(Henshall 1963-72, i, 382)

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