Monument record MHG5148 - Clachan Erisco

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 4519 4800 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG44NE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish SNIZORT

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NG44NE 1 4519 4801.

(NG 4519 4801) Clachan Erisco (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Stone Circle (Remains), Clachan Erisco. There are three erect stones forming a very flat curve, the axis of the extreme stones running NW-SE. The stone to the E, an irregular six-sided prism, is 6ft high and 6 1/2ft in girth at the ground; the central stone, 13 3/4ft distant, is 5 1/2ft in height, 3ft 2ins in breadth and 13ins thick; while the third stone, 13 1/2ft further on to the NW, measures 3 1/4ft in height, 2ft 8ins in width and 15ins in thickness; the two latter are set up radially. In the line of the curve formed by these three stones, at a distance of 21ft 10ins to the NW, is a fourth stone 1 1/2ft high, 2ft 4ins broad and 11 ins thick, which may have been one of the component parts of the ring of stones.
In the immediate neighbourhood are three prostrate monoliths, which possibly had formed part of the circle, as no other stones of their magnitutude or appearnace are to be found in the adjoining drystone dykes. One of these is built into a dyke about 20ft to the W of the standing stones and measures 6ft long, 2ft broad and 12ins thick; another lying within two yards of it is 4 1/2ft long, 1 1/2ft broad; and the third, on the opposite side of the road 50 yards to the E, is 5ft 2ins long, about 2ft in breadth and 8ins thick.
RCAHMS 1928.

Clachan Erisco, three standing stones as described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (A S P) 28 April 1961.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Burl, {H} A {W}. 1976. The stone circles of the British Isles. 358.
  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1928. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. . 204, No. 636.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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