Database Update
Date 4 March 2010
Event ID 629881
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/629881
This chambered cairn is largely as described and planned by Henshall. It stands in open ground and its perimeter is now subsumed into the encroaching peat. The passage approaches the chamber from the E. The latter is oval on plan, built of large upright slabs and measuring 4.5m from E to W by 3.5m internally; the slab forming the rear of the chamber is set on the axis of the passage. Other large slabs lying adjacent are probably displaced lintels and corbels. Several shieling huts overlie the cairn, including one of two compartments on the NW, which is probably that depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North Uist, 1882, sheet xl). This map annotates the chambered cairn ‘Stone Circle’.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG,SPH) 4 March 2010
