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Field Visit
Date 4 August 1915
Event ID 1103450
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103450
Chambered Cairn, Loch Glen na Feannag, Loch Eport.
On a plateau at the base of the eastern slope of Craonaval, about 150 yards south of the passage from Loch Eport into Oban nam Fiadh, and about the same distance north-west of Loch Glen na Feannag, is a very dilapidated chambered cairn. It has been stripped of a large portion of its stony covering, leaving a mound of stones, measuring some 54 feet from east to west, and 4 feet in height, from which some of the large slabs of the wall of the chamber project about 3 feet higher. The outer part of the entrance passage, despoiled of its lintels, remains undisturbed on the east-south-east. Three of the wall slabs of the chamber remain in or near their original position, one on the west measuring 2 feet 9 inches in height above the debris, 5 feet 6 inches in breadth, and 1 foot 7 inches in thickness, another on the north showing an exposed height of 4 feet 8 inches and a width of 2 feet 11 inches, and the third towards the east of smaller dimensions and with a considerable outward slant. From these indications the chamber seems to have been circular with a diameter of about 10 feet 6inches, and the entrance passage about 16 feet in length. The outer part of the entrance passage is defined, for a distance inwards of about 5 ½ feet, by two slabs about 2 feet in height, set on edge 2 feet 4 inches apart at the outer end, and 3 feet 5 inches apart at the inner end. The slab on the west side is 5 feet 6 inches long and the opposite one 4 feet 8 inches long. The portal is formed by two slabs 2 feet 4 inches high, 2 feet 9 inches broad, and 7 inches thick, and 2 feet 5 inches high, 3 feet broad, and 6 inches thick respectively, set 2 feet 4 inches apart with a very wide outward splay from the walls of the passage. In line with, and some 3 feet 6 inches further in than the northern side slab of the passage already described, is another large erect stone 4 feet long, 3 feet 8 inches high, and 15 inches thick, lying against which are two large slabs. One slab, probably a lintel, lies across the passage, but it has been disturbed. Within the chamber, partly embedded in soil, is a stone having the appearance of a roofing flag, at least 7 feet long, and 4 feet8 inches broad. Outside the chamber on the south-west is a confused mass of large, flat stones of which three are of considerable dimensions, and another, a pillar or lintel-stone, lies to the north. This cairn is marked "Stone Circle" on O.S. map. (Fig. 133.)
RCAHMS 1928, visited 4 August 1915.
OS map: North Uist xl
