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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clash-an-damCountry: Scotland County: Caithness Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Wick Nearest Village: Whaligoe
Map Ref: ND3125640434
Latitude: 58.346993N Longitude: 3.176084W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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SandyG visited on 3rd Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 This is a tricky one to get to. Car parking is available at ND 31885 40851. Follow the old railway line south to ND 31592 40498. From here walk uphill across uneven open moorland. Alternatively access may be available from the nearby Groat’s Loch, South stone row.
Recorded as Canmore Site ID 271100 in the parish of Wick, there are 17 small to medium sized stones making up six to seven rows, with no more than three stones in any one row.
The record adds: "fourteen of the stones stand on or close to a modern post-and-wire fence, and the remaining three are situated in poorly drained ground some 30m to the WSW. None of the stones is more than 0.55m in height, most are much shorter, and the distance between the rows varies from about 2.5m to 3m."
Update October 2019: This row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Clash-an-Dam, which tells us this row has a length of 35 metres, is at an orientation of 67.5 degrees, and "forms part of a cluster including at least 9 stone rows near Loch Watenan and has definable visual links with the sea, nearby cairns, chambered cairns and stone rows".
The SRoGB entry includes a description, photographs and access information, plus links to other online resources for more information. They also have a separate page to discuss and illustrate the Sea Views at Clash-an-Dam, showing how the alignment is "positioned to provide evolving views of the sea".
SandyG, creator of the Stone Rows of Great Britain website, asks visitors to note that "this is a tricky one to get to". See his visit report or access information section on his webpage for this alignment for more information.
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