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| NH 757 444 (Pub.) | Diameter 31.6 x 34.8m (Pub.) |
| Visited August 1987/ July 1999 | No magnetic anomalies* |
The north east Clava cairn is 16.8m in diameter and has a supporting bank, a 6m long stone-lined passage leads to its central chamber. The passage would originally have had a lintelled roof and was aligned so that the rays of the setting sun would shine into the chamber at midwinter. The chamber is circular and is lined with large kerb stones, the beginnings of its corbelled roof are visible in the remaining side walls. When excavated in 1854 bones were found, as well as a layer of red sand beneath black earth. A small kerbstone on the periphery of the cairn at the north is heavily cup marked, and a slab in the western wall of the passage is also decorated. The Cairn is surrounded by a graded stone circle 31.8 x 34.8m dia., eleven stones are present, although some are damaged. Several of the stones in the various circles at the site are large flat sided rectangles of thin stone, looking rather like giant playing cards. These stones stand tangentially to the circle, and the tallest stone (2.7m), in the NE circle is one of these, it is visible on the left in the photo above.
*Only circle stones tested.
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