Mains of Moyness

Boulder at Moyness Cairn		Moyness Cairn

The remains of the day strongly with sea gorse -covered ring cairn Mains of Moyness (also called Moyness) are in Auldearn, southeast of Nairn in the Highlands in Scotland .

They consist of part of an outer stone circle, the north-eastern part of which was destroyed by a road. The inner curbs are asymmetrical boulders up to 82 cm high. The cairn material was almost completely removed. It could be a Ring Cairn or the rest of a Clava Cairn .

From the outer stone circle, a single 1.35 m high monolith remained on the southeast side. Nearby are several long, thin stone slabs, probably from the destruction of another monolith, while to the northwest of the cairn, next to its original position, there is a large slab that probably belongs to another monolith. A row of stones, the foundations of a field wall, run from this slab to the west side of the curb ring.

The inner circle of the cairn was about eight meters in diameter and was paved with small stones. The central area was excavated in 1856 and an urn was found.

The Moyness Stone Chest

Moyness' stone chest was found around 1830. It contained a large, complete skeleton. Five or six urns filled with ashes and burned bones were found nearby. They were excavated from a small mound called "Black Hillock" between the Ring Cairn and the Golford Stone Circle. There is also a boulder nearby .

Web links

• Description Engl. and picture
• Entry on Stone Chest  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
• Entry on Ring Cairn  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
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literature

• R. Bradley: The good stones: a new investigation of the Clava Cairns, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland monograph series no. 17th Edinburgh 2000.
• AS Henshall, A S. (1963a) The chambered tombs of Scotland, vol. 1. Edinburgh 1963.

Coordinates: 57 ° 33 ′ 38.4 "  N , 3 ° 45 ′ 11.4"  W.