Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648551

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC22NW 1 2341 2552

(NC 234 255) Allt Sgiathaig: The cairn is placed on a knoll at about 500' OD on a steep moorland hillside. It has a diameter of 35' and a height of c. 4'. Two slabs on its N edge have the appearance of being kerb stones, while the cairn seems to have spread to the NE and SW beyond its original limits. The NW side has been severely robbed and all traces of the passage, which apparently entered the chamber from this side, have probably been destroyed.

The chamber is partly ruined and filled with large slabs and debris. Two upright slabs on the W side, one slightly displaced forwards, are exposed to a height of nearly 3' and probably represent the portal stones between the passage and chamber. Two verticial but lower stones and two stretches of walling on the E side indicate a chamber c. 7' long by c. 5' wide.

A S Henshall 1963.

(NC 2341 2552) Chambered Cairn (NR)

OS 6"map, (1967)

Road improvements have caused the ground to be cut away to the very edge of the cairn on the NW side. It now seems more likely that the entrance to the chamber was on the SE side, giving the tomb a normal orientation. The edge of a flat stone revealed 5'6" from the chamber on this side might well be a lintel of the passage.

A S Henshall 1972, revisited 8 October 1963.

A ruinous chambered cairn recently slightly truncated on the W by roadworks. It is generally as planned by Henshall (A S Henshall 1963) but none of the stones can be considered kerb stones and the flat stone 5'6" from the chamber in the SE has been shown by a recent 'dig' to be loose in the debris and there is nothing to indicate the position of the entrance.

Visited by OS (J M) 15 August 1974.

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (N K B) 6 June 1980.