Field Visit
Date April 1996 - May 1996
Event ID 1007878
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1007878
A series of at least fifty cairns constructed from beach cobbles lie upon an expanse of bare, raised beach behind Port na Fhir-bhéige. These cairns measure between 1.0 and 3.0m in diameter and between 0.2 and 0.5m in height. Two cairns are considerably larger at around 6.0m in diameter and 1.6m in height, surrounded by ditches 1.0m broad and 0.3m deep.
These cairns have traditionally been identified as the products of penitential tasks imposed on pilgrims or monks. The number and shape of the cairns appears to be the same on the 1946 aerial photographs which would suggest they are not a recent phenomenon.
(ION96 056)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
