Field Visit
Date 27 May 1936
Event ID 1130252
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1130252
Cairn, Willie's Wart.
This site is on the highest point of land between Loch Isbister and the West Loch of Skaw, about a third of a mile S.W. of the latter. Almost all the stones have been removed, no doubt to build a "plantie-krub" which stands hard by but sufficient traces remain to suggest that the cairn was originally about 23 ft. in diameter. In the centre, at the date of visit, was a setting of stones just showing above the turf and suggesting the presence of a cist. This cist has since been excavated by Mr. J. Stewart, who reports that its length was 4 ft. 4 in. on the. S.E. and 4 ft. 2 in. on the N.W. side, its breadth 2 ft. 10 in. at the N.E. and 2 ft. at the SW. end, and the depth of the slabs forming it from 1 ft. 3 in. to 1 ft. 10 ½ in. The bottom is made of smaller stones lying on peat. At the N.E. end of the cist, in a layer of grey soil, grit and fine sand, was found a rude hammer-stone and at the bottom of the layer a flint flake.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 27 May 1936.
