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Field Visit
Date 16 June 1914
Event ID 1103009
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103009
Stone Circle, "Tursachan", Garynahine.
About 1 mile south of Garynahine and some 250 yards west of the road to Uig on the gently rising northern slope of a small hill, about 100 yards from its summit, at an elevation of 100 feet above sea-level, commanding a fine view in all directions, except to the south is a stone circle 33 feet in diameter, consisting of five tall, thin pillar stones, each facing the interior, with a circular ring of small boulders about 12 feet in diameter within the circle, and a small slab, 2 feet high, 2 feet 8 inches wide and 10 inches thick, set on edge in the centre of the ring. The stones are placed at irregular distances, varying from 7 feet 11 inches to 32 feet, the last space to the north-west suggesting that a stone has been removed. The pillars vary from 6 feet 9 inches to 9 feet in height and from 2 feet 7 inches to 4 feet 10 inches in width, the two adjoining stones on the eastern arc being flat on the top and the others pointed. The area enclosed by the circle has been depleted of a 2 feet covering of peat, and apparently some further excavation has been made. (Fig. 52.)
RCAHMS 1928, visited 16 June 1914.
OS map: Lewis xxv.
