Field Visit
Date 28 May 1999
Event ID 996316
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/996316
Site recorded during a short-notice survey which undertaken of c 250ha of land in the grounds of Lews Castle to the W of Stornoway Harbour: the remains of a chambered cairn previously recorded at NB 4170 3229 (NMRS NB43SW 26).
Sponsor: Historic Scotland.
M Dalland 1999.
The remains of the cairn cover a subcircular area measuring approximately 30m in diameter. The chamber is aligned from NE to SW and measures 5m by 1.2m internally. There are no capstones surviving. As part of landscaping of the Stornoway Castle in the 19th century, a path was laid out around the E side of the cairn and may have cut into the edge of it. In commemoration of a royal visit in 1902, a drystone cairn, measuring 3.6m in diameter and 2m in height, was built at the NE edge of the cairn.
Information from M Dalland and J Wordsworth (Headland Archaeology) 28 May 1999; NMRS, MS/899/138, no.5
