Clach an Trushal
Site type: stone circle
Parish: Barvas
County: Ross and Cromarty
Grid reference: NB 3756 5377
Lat / long: 58.393441, -6.492915
Alternative names: Clach an Truiseil; Thrushel Stone; Truiseil
Clach an Trushel is the tallest standing stone in Scotland at an impressive 5.8m tall. It stands on an artificially-flattened platform looking out to sea, and was once surrounded by a circle of smaller stones (probably around 1.5m in height). The remains of these stones can be seen built into the nearby field walls. The last erect stone was taken down and used as a lintel in a local house around 1914. The circle would probably have measured around 30m in diameter, with Clach an Trushal off-centre.
35m north-east of the stone is a prostrate slab measuring 1.50m long by 0.75m wide and 0.20m thick which may once have stood as an outlier.
