Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

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

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14280

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
Canmore Disclaimer. © Copyright and database right 2024.

Toggle Aerial | View on large map

Digital Images

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)

References

MyCanmore Image Contributions


Contribute an Image

MyCanmore Text Contributions