Field Visit

Date 20 August 1914

Event ID 1103943

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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RCAHMS Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles.

Chambered Cairn, Barp, Reineval.

Nearly 5 miles north-west of Lochboisdale, on the northern slope of Reineval, at an elevation of 100 feet above sea-level, about 5/8 mile north of Barp Frobost (NF72SE 3), and some 300 yards from the southern shore of Lochan Ath Ruaidh, is a fairly well preserved chambered cairn, almost circular in shape and measuring some 78 feet from north to south and about 73 feet from east to west, its height being about 12 feet. It has been surrounded by a ring of pillar stones set up among the stones on the edge of the cairn, with their tops inclining slightly inwards. Of these six remain in position on the north-western arc, one on the south-west and four on the east. The distance between the standing stones on the north-west arc varies from 4 feet 4 inches to 12 feet, and they measure from 3 to 7 feet in height and from 1 foot 3 inches to 3 feet in breadth.

The surface of the cairn has been disturbed in many places, and towards the east a large slab 6 feet long, 4 feet 8 inches broad, and 1 foot 3 inches thick, probably the cover stone of the chamber, is exposed. A short length of the entrance passage running slightly south of east can be traced, two erect slabs in juxtaposition on the south side being visible. It is some 2 feet 10 inches wide. (Fig. 170.)

RCAHMS 1928, visited 20 August 1914.

OS map: South Uist Iv.