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Field Visit
Date 12 September 1914
Event ID 1103483
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103483
Chambered Cairn (ruined), Cringraval, Clachan.
About 8 ½ miles south-west of Lochmaddy, on the summit of Cringraval, a small hill rising to a height of 129 feet above sea level, immediately to the north-east of Clachan, is a very dilapidated chambered cairn, all that remains being a ring of stones 40 to 43 feet in diameter externally and 4 feet in height; not only has the cairn been reduced in height, but the central portion has been removed. Five large slabs or blocks lie near its eastern margin, two of which measure 5 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 4 inches and 5 feet by 3 feet6 inches by 1 foot respectively. Outside the heap to the east-north-east are two large slabs set on edge tilted to the north almost parallel to each other at a distance of 5 feet 6 inches apart, the southern slab being 6 feet 6 inches long, 5 feet 1 inch high, and 1 foot thick, while the other is 3 feet 8 inches long, 3 feet 3 inches high, and 8 inches thick. While these slabs have much the appearance of part of a chamber or entrance passage, the angle at which they are placed runs not towards the centre but towards the present southern edge of the cairn. About 15 yards to the west-south-west at the bottom of a peat bank is a section of a low, loose wall of stones running directly under the peat towards the cairn. A length of 6 feet is exposed, which is about 2 feet broad and 2 feet high.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 12 September 1914.
OS map: North Uist xxxix (unnoted)
