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Latitude: 57.3938 / 57°23'37"N
Longitude: -4.1988 / 4°11'55"W
OS Eastings: 267951
OS Northings: 835848
OS Grid: NH679358
Mapcode National: GBR J905.MFQ
Mapcode Global: WH4GW.GFT5
Entry Name: Mains of Gask,ring cairn and standing stones 130m SSW of
Scheduled Date: 6 March 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4651
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: ring cairn
Location: Daviot and Dunlichity
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument consists of a ring cairn of Clava type; the cairn measures 27m across externally within the remains of a stone circle about 40m in diameter of which 3 stones still stand and 6 lie recumbent close to their original positions. There are at least 3 cupmarked stones in the kerb of the cairn. The area to be scheduled runs NE from but excludes a field dyke; it includes the cairn and stone circle and an area in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use will survive and measures 50m NE/SW by up to 50m transversely as shown on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is the largest known Clava ring cairn and is of national importance as a good field monument with considerable potential for increasing understanding of the ritual and burial practices of the 3rd millennium BC.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The monument is recorded in the RCAHMS as NH 63 NE 10.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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