Field Visit
Date 9 May 1914
Event ID 1105516
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105516
Chambered Cairn, Liveras, Broadford.
This fine cairn, which was opened in 1832 and since then has been further disturbed, encroaches on the west side of the road about 500 yards south of the pier at Broadford, immediately to the north of the garden of the United Free Church manse. Standing 100 feet distant from and 20 feet above high-watermark, it is now oval in shape and measures 77 feet in length, 55 feet in breadth, and 13 feet in height at its highest point. It is reported that the chamber was about 6 feet in height, and that an urn and other relics, including a flint arrow-head and a stone bracer or wrist-guard, were found in it (1). The latter is preserved in the National Museum of Antiquities. The cover stone of the chamber, which had apart broken off when the cairn was excavated, lies on the north slope of the cairn; what remains is roughly triangular in shape and measures 8 feet in length, 5 feet in breadth across the widest end, and 1 foot in thickness. When the road to the new pier at Broadford was being made, at least one cist was discovered in removing a small part of the eastern edge of the cairn.
(1) Strath: In Isle of Skye, by Rev. D. Lamont, p. 160.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 9 May 1914.
OS map: Skye xl.
