Lagmore East

Also known as:
Lower Lagmore
Nearest town:
Aberlour (10km NE)
OS reference:
NJ179359
OS sheet:
28
Latitude:
57° 24' 22.04 N
Longitude:
3° 21' 59.74 W
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Image of Lagmore East (Clava Cairn) by stolinskie

NYE 2024 – stones with the ballindalloch distillery behind, and upper lagmore *just* to be seen up on the hill to the right

Image credit: stolinskie
stolinskie
stolinskie Jan 14, 2025

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Lagmore East

stolinskie
stolinskie Oct 16, 2025

After an interesting presentation of the Inveravon Pictish Stones – the church is heading into community ownership apparently and the mound above the stones has never been excavated – we thought a quick visit to Lagmore East would work out before it rained, and it did.

The gate to the field can be opened and we respectfully saluted the sheepies. On looking at HER, it’s claimed this is a clava cairn, I’m not sure about that there’s not really enough left to see. There’s also supposed to be another fallen stone with cupmarks which was not visible under the turf.

We discussed how it’s kind of odd that one of the remaining stones looks rectangular and pretty easy to repurpose as a lintel, but it wasn’t looted. Our last theory: this was an unfinished circle and never had a full complement of stones.

Lagmore East

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jun 10, 2009

Lagmore east is found beside the A95 at Ballindalloch golf course, at the Bridge Of Avon. There is plenty of car parking space. The site is only a short walk. On the hill above is the more famous Upper Lagmore, if arriving from the north Marionburgh will have been passed. In the past this was a very dangerous road, it has been upgraded in recent times but still needs care.

Visited 23/12/08.

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Lagmore East
Clava Cairn
stolinskie
stolinskie Oct 16, 2025
Moray HER

Remains of a Clava type cairn. Five stones remain, being part of an outer circle of monoliths, consisting of three that are standing and two fallen, which would have formed a circle just over 30 m in diameter. The northwest stone shows signs of splitting. One of the fallen stones to the northeast bears a number of cup-marks. Only a slight ground disturbance indicates the cairn and it cannot be ascertained whether it has been a passage grave or a ring cairn. It is depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps as remains of a stone circle. The cup-marked stone was visited in July 2021 by Scotland’s Rock Art Project, but the panel could not be viewed as covered by deep turf, which was not removed.

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