NW passage stone Clava Cairns

Balnuaran Of Clava, NW passage cup marked stone. 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 (as shown in this 3D model), and one of the kerb-stones on the N bears 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.