Clava Cairns cup marked stone

Description

This cup marked boulder is part of the complex of monuments at Clava ('Clava cairns'), well known and much frequented by visitors, with a car park and interpretation, close to Culloden and Inverness, Scotland. The Clava passage-grave within a circle of eleven standing stones (and a small earthfast. stone on the N). The cairn, measuring 16.8m over a kerb of graded boulders, is surrounded by a platform of stones extending outwards for up to 5.5m. The chamber measures 4m in diameter and is entered from the SSW. Cup-marks occur on the innermost stone of the NW side of the passage, and one of the kerb-stones on the N bears as shown in this model has about fifty cup-marks (one of them surrounded by a single ring) together with several pecked channels. It is located on a level river terrace to the SE of the river Nairn, in the flat bottom of the SW to NE valley.