Balnauran of Clava


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	Sunday 5^th August [ Central Ring Cairn ] [ Southern Cairn ] Balnauran of Clava Clava Cairns NH 757 444 Take the B9006 signed Culloden Battlefield and after the visitor centre take the next right, go over the crossroads and continue over a bridge. Take the next right and the carpark is on nthe right. We camped quite close to this site so as it stopped raining we made a visit before the sunset when it would be quiet and made a return visit in the morning to play “dodge the coachtours”. The northeast cairn This is a complex site consisting of two Clava passage tombs and a ring cairn between them and a small kerb cairn to the east of the ring cairn. The cairns are in a line NE to SW and are Clava types which are cairns made from a mound of boulders with a narrow passage leading to a central round burial chamber. Cairns can be kerbed and can also have an outer stone circle.
	The northeast tomb is surrounded by a stone circle with 11 of its 12 stones in place, the tallest is 2.7m high. There is a stone lined entrance to the chamber on the SW and the 6m passage leads to a small circular chamber. On one of the northern kerbstones there are extensive cupmarks and a western sideslab at the chamber entrance also is carved. Cupmarked kerbstone [ Central Ring Cairn ] [ Southern Cairn ]
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