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Field Visit
Date May 1972
Event ID 1161956
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1161956
NM 560 619
Chambered Cairn, Camas nan Geall (ARG 2): This cairn stands at the head of the bay known as Camas nan Geall, within a level arable field bounded by the sea to the SW and the lower slopes of Ben Hiant and Beinn Bhuidhe on the other three sides. Most of the cairn, which was aligned roughly NW and SE, has been destroyed to provide building material for a township, but parts of the chamber and facade still survive. In only two places does any cairn material remain, firstly at the NE horn of the facade, where it is up to 1m in height, and secondly between the SW side of the chamber and the adjacent township-building. The tip of the horn of the facade is marked by a stone (0.8m high and 1.1m by 0.3m at the base) set at right angles both to the end of the facade and to the outer edge of the cairn on the NE. The cairn material at the end of the horn has, however, been destroyed by a farm track. Two other stones of this half of the facade remain, one lying prone and the other measuring 2.1m in height, 1.75m in breadth and up to 0.5m in thickness at the base. Another fallen facade-stone lies between the S portal and the later building. If the stones of the facade had been symmetrically disposed, it seems likely that it was originally semicircular on plan, measuring about 18m across and 10m in depth.
The chamber is entered between a pair of impressive portal stones, the SW stone standing to a height of 1.5m; the two remaining side-slabs are 1m and 1.4m in height, but the capstone has slipped off and rests against the SW side-slab. At the present time the chamber measures 1.8m in length and about 1.2m in breadth, but there is no doubt that it originally extended further to the NW; several massive stones, which may have formed part of the chamber or the facade, have been used in the construction of the near-by buildings.
RCAHMS 1980, visited May 1972.
