Monument record MHG2957 - Ring cairn and standing Stone, Ballaggan
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 7510 4378 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH74SE |
| Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | CROY AND DALCROSS |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Stone Circle (NR), Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
Ring-cairn, Culdoich: This cairn the most westerly of the Clava cemetery, lies like them in the flat fields of the valley floor. It has a somewhat irregular kerb, of both split stones and boulders; with a diameter of about 57 feet. It is complete but for minor gaps except on the south side where a small gravel pit has eaten into the side of the cairn. The kerb-stones are 2 feet 9 inches high on the south-west side opposite the monolith, dwindling at about 1 foot high on the other side. The interior circular setting has a diameter of about 22 feet and is of split stones which on excavation were found to stand up to 5 feet high. The cairn material has been removed except for the last foot or so.
A single stone of the surrounding stone circle remains an enormous slab 12 feet high, leaning outwards, set 27 feet from the kerb, on the southwest side. There are two cupmarks on the outer side of the monlith towards its base. One kerb stone on the east-south-east side also bears two cupmarks on its outer surface and another stone, on the west side, may possibly be marked but is too irregular and weathered to be certain (Jolly 1882). In the earliest record of the site (1857) the cairn is reported as "undisturbed" but there was then only one monolith (Innes 1862).
C Innes 1862; W Jolly 1882; J Fraser 1884; S Piggott 1956; S Lisowski 1958; A S Henshall 1963, visited 21 April 1958.
The remains of the cairn are as described above.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 24 April 1962.
Air photographs, taken by Jill Harden in 1989, are in Inverness Museum (8907.06-07 INVMG).
Information from J Harden 1989.
Sources/Archives (17)
- --- SHG1251 Text/Publication/Article: Innes, C. 1862. 'Notice of a tomb on the hill of Roseisle, Morayshire, recently opened; also of the chambered cairns and stone circles at Clava, in Nairnshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 3 1857-60, p.46-50. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 46-50. 48.
- --- SHG1317 Text/Publication/Article: Jolly, W. 1882. On cup-marked stones in the neighbourhood of Inverness; with an appendix on cup-marked stones in the Western Islands. Proc Soc Antiq Scot Volume 16. 300-401. 321.
- --- SHG1544 Text/Publication/Article: Burl, {H} A {W}. 1973. 'Stone circles and ring-cairns', Scot Archaeol Forum Vol. 4 1972, p.31-47. Scot Archaeol Forum. 31-47. 31-47.
- --- SHG1711 Text/Publication/Article: Burl, H A W. 1973. 'The recumbent stone circles of North-East Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 102 1969-70, p.56-81. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 56-81. 77.
- --- SHG2004 Text/Publication/Volume: Burl, {H} A {W}. 1976. The stone circles of the British Isles. 177, 359.
- --- SHG2673 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North-east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region. . 8, No. 14.
- --- SHG2867 Text/Publication/Volume: Thom, A. 1967. Megalithic sites in Britain. 137, no. B7/2.
- --- SHG3124 Text/Publication/Article: Burl, H A W. 1982. Pi in the sky. SHG23368. 141-9. 150.
- --- SHG315 Collection/Catalogue/Gazetteer: Thom, Thom and Burl, A, A S and [H] A [W]. 1980. Megalithic rings: plans and data for 229 monuments in Britain. 81.
- --- SHG357 Text/Publication/Monograph: Henshall, A S. 1963. The chambered tombs of Scotland, Volume 1. 371-2, INV 21.
- --- SHG40 Text/Publication/Article: Barber, J. 1982. 'A fallen stone at the ring cairn of Culdoich, Clava, Inverness-shire', Glasgow Archaeol J, Vol 9, pp 31-7. Glasgow Archaeological Journal Vol 9. 31-37.
- --- SHG485 Text/Publication/Article: Lisowski, F P. 1958. 'Cremations from the Culdoich, Leys and Kinchyle sites', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 89 1955-6, p.83-90. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 83-90. 83-90.
- --- SHG496 Text/Publication/Article: Barber, J. 1982. 'Culdoich (Croy and Dalcross p) ring cairn and stone circle', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1982, p.14. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 14. 14.
- --- SHG5033 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: B/W Negative. .
- --- SHG5034 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: B/W Negative. .
- --- SHG537 Text/Publication/Article: Fraser, J. 1884. 'Descriptive notes on the stone circles of Strathnairn and neighbourhood of Inverness', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 18 1883-4, p.328-62. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 328-62. 338.
- --- SHG749 Text/Publication/Article: Piggott, S. 1956. Excavations in passage-graves and ring-cairns of the Clava group 1952-3. Proc Soc Antiq Scot Volume 88. 173-207. 190-2, 207; plan.
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