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Skye, Ullinish Lodge
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Skye, Ullinish Lodge
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 11055
Site Number NG33NW 1
NGR NG 3237 3791
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11055
- Council Highland
- Parish Bracadale
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG33NW 1 3237 3791.
(NG 3237 3791) Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1969)
A much-robbed Hebridean-type chambered cairn 6' in maximum height and turf-covered, the edge quite clear, with a diameter of 80'. The ground is rather uneven and it is likely that the chamber has been built on a slight rise and that there is less cairn material round it than there appears to be.
The pear-shaped chamber, 17' long by 10'3" wide of massive split blocks is entered from the ESE. A single stone, 3'4" SE of the chamber and set parallel to its axis, can just be seen. It probably represents part of the S side of either an ante-chamber or passage. It is 24' from the cairn edge on the ESE side.
(RCAHMS 1928; A S Henshall 1972, visited 1962).
A chambered cairn, generally as described and planned.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 14 October 1971.
Field Visit (11 June 1921)
Chambered Cairn (denuded), Ullinish Lodge.
Some 200 yards north-north-west of Ullinish Lodge, on a slight ridge dominated by a rocky plateau some 50 yards to the south-east, at an elevation of about 100 feet above sea-level, is a much despoiled chambered cairn. Near the centre of the cairn, which has probably been circular with a diameter of about 76 feet and which is now reduced to a height of 5 feet, are eight slabs of considerable size and one small stone set on end, all that remains of the burial chamber. The stones vary from 1 to 3 feet 6 inches in height, from 1 foot 4 inches to 4 feet 6 inches in length, and from 1 foot to 3 feet in thickness, and enclose a sub-oval space measuring 17 feet from west-north-west to east-south-east and 9 feet across. A large block 3 feet 3 inches by 3 feet by 2 feet 2 inches high lies inside the chamber. One of the upright blocks is placed at right angles to the main axis of the chamber at the eastern end, and possibly may have formed the right side of the portal into the chamber. The entrance passage is not distinguishable. (Fig. 238.)
RCAHMS 1928, visited 11 June 1921.
OS map: Skye xxviii (unnoted).
