Clach na Tiompan
Chambered Cairn; Standing Stone; Possible Stone Circle
The robbed remains of this chambered cairn, approximately 57 metres (190 feet) long and up to 12 metres (38 feet) wide, lie in a glorious location in Glen Almond. It has three visible cists in the body of the cairn and CANMORE reports that there used to be a fourth, now destroyed.
Just a few metres away is what appears to be a solitary standing stone, but nearby under the turf are two more likely fallen stones on what could be the arc of a circle. A few hundred metres northwest along the river are the ruinous remains of another stone circle.
1/7 From the west end of the cairn looking southeast along Glen Almond. A pyramidal pile of stones marks almost the east end of the cairn. To the right of the point where the road first disappears, just past the far end of the cairn, a standing stone can be seen.
2/7 The remains of one of the cairn's chambers.
3/7 A cist in the centre of the cairn is in the foreground. The standing stone is in the top-right of the picture.
4/7 Another cist, still with its capstone, at the eastern end of the cairn.
5/7 Another cist.
6/7 The standing stone, looking northeast along Glen Almond. The cairn can be seen on the right where the road bends away.
7/7 The standing stone sooking southwest. Another two stones, possibly part of a ruinous circle, are within a few metres and just visible under the turf.
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