Clava Cairn

Clava Cairns are a localized form endneolithischer megalithic sites in Scotland. Twelve of these only about 50 round artificial hill located in the county of Inverness -shire. The most famous and eponymous are the three not particularly large Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness. A stray phenomenon, the Cairn of Carmahome on the Isle of Arran dar.

Within a circle of megalithic curbs the hill was listed from gravel, reminiscent of the layout of later Breochs. Inside is formed by means of the megaliths round chamber to which leads a ducted gear. Regularly Clava Cairns are surrounded by an outer stone circle that surrounds the Cairn distance 10-15 meters. The stepped in height stones formed from relatively few stones of this circle have their greatest height in relation to the access to the Cairn, pointing to the southwest. These features also appear in the Bronze Age ring Cairns, which occur in the same area. Therefore, it is assumed that the structural similarity refers to a timely development. Another context is the stone circles on the River Dee, which are also graded in height.

The cairn of Balnuaran of Clava are flat and the course therefore, unlike the Corrimony Cairn, unfunded. Corrimony is a well- preserved specimen, in a circle of eleven standing stones, of a few kilometers west of Loch Ness is Cannich. Here you will also find a stone with cup-and -ring markings. Some of the stones on the site at Clava in Lagmore West and the Cairn of Gask are also provided with bowls. Avielochan, 17 km north-east of Grantown -on-Spey ( Morayshire ) and Cairn Irenan seven kilometers north- west of Dingwall ( Ross -shire ) are due to the fouling poorly recognizable copies of the Clava - type.

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