Region : Highlands District : Inverness Town or village : Urquhart Grid Reference : NH 383 303 Period : Late 3rd millennium BC Corrimony CLAVA-TYPE CAIRN

This well preserved example of Clava-type chambered cairn is surrounded by a circle of 11 standing stones (four of them are probable later additions). The cairn is oval in shape and retained by a kerb of boulders. The entrance passage to the central chamber is 7m long and partially roofed. The chamber is 3.6m in diameter. On top of the cairn lies a large slab bearing several cupmarks. It weighs about two tons and it may originally have been the final capstone over the chamber roof. During excavation in 1952, a floor of sand and a slab-paved area at the centre were found in the chamber, along with a crouched inhumation burial and an eroded bone pin. In care of Historic Scotland

Other Clava-type cairns ------------------ Aviemore Balnuaran of Clava (Clava) Corrimony Gask Lagmore West (Upper Lagmore) Other sites in the Highlands ---------------------- Achavanich Aviemore Balnuaran of Clava (Clava) Borve Camster Long Camster Round Camus nan Geall Chambered Cairn Camus nan Geall Standing Stone Carn Liath Clach Mhic Mhios Cnoc Freiceadain North Cnoc Freiceadain South Coille na Borgie South Corrimony Craig Phadrig Dun Ardtreck Dun Beag Dunbeath Dun Dornaigil Dun Ringill Dun Telve Dun Troddan Garrywhin (Cairn o'Get) Gask Learable Hill Mid Clyth (Hill o'Many Stanes) Na Clachan Bhreige Ord North Ord South Portnancon (Laid) South Yarrows South