Field Visit
Date June 1983
Event ID 1156093
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156093
Point of Cott HY 4654 4744 HY44NE 3
This long stalled tomb lies on the edge of a 5m high cliff at the blunt headland 600m N of Cleat. It is a grass-covered mound aligned N-S, measuring 30m in length and widening from 7 .6m at the N end to 13. 7 m at the S, where it was horned. The wall-face of the W horn can be traced on its W side, continuing N for much of the length of the mound. Nine stall-slabs project in the hollowed centre. This important site is suffering erosion along the whole length of its E side and also at its N end, where the stonework is rapidly falling out. At the moment, however, the forecourt area at the S end remains intact.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1983
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, pp. 356-7, No. 1047; Henshall 1963, 226; OR 906).
