Monument record MHG3943 - Croftcroy
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 6835 3318 (33m by 33m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH63SE |
| Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | DAVIOT AND DUNLICHITY |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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NH63SE 2 6835 3318.
(NH 6835 3318) Stone Circle {NR}
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)
A Clava passage-grave - the cairn is overgrown with shrubs and has been so much robbed that all the cairn material has been removed.
The kerb has a diameter of 35 ft. and the passage runs from the SSW. Fraser (J Fraser 1884) noted three large slabs, 8 ft. to 12 ft. 6" long lying outside the kerb, presumably fallen monoliths of a circle surrounding the cairn. The two to the south are no longer to be seen and that to the NE has been shifted nearer the kerb.
A S Henshall 1963, visited 8 April 1957; J Fraser 1884.
The remains of the cairn are as described above. It is mutilated and overgrown with bushes and trees.
Survey at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 10 September 1963.0
This Clava chambered cairn is situated in the rear garden of Stonehenge House, a modern building lying to the NE of Farr Post Office. The cairn measures about 11.5m in diameter over a kerb of boulders up to 1m in height, and the passage runs towards a central chamber from the SSW. Originally the cairn appears to have been surrounded by a stone circle, but only one fallen slab remains.
(USN93 393)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 17 March 1993.
Sources/Archives (5)
- --- SHG24003 Image/Photograph(s): Highland Council Archaeology Unit. HCAU Slide Collection Sheet 1. Colour slide. . Digital (scanned). 21, 23.
- --- SHG24004 Image/Photograph(s): Highland Council Archaeology Unit. HCAU Slide Collection Sheet 2. Colour slide. . Digital (scanned). 33, 37.
- --- SHG2676 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1994. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Upper Strathnairn, Inverness: an archaeological survey: summary report. .
- --- SHG357 Text/Publication/Monograph: Henshall, A S. 1963. The chambered tombs of Scotland, Volume 1. 370, INV 18; plan fig. 92.
- --- 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. 333-4; plan, fig. 3.
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Record last edited
Sep 19 2013 2:40PM
