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Cadha Riach, Skye
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Cadha Riach, Skye
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Garafad
Canmore ID 11342
Site Number NG46NE 12
NGR NG 4955 6757
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11342
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmuir
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG46NE 12 4955 6757.
(NG 494 676) Beaker sherds and plain sherds found with cremated bone at a site, possibly a ring-cairn, at Cadha Riach, were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] in 1970 by C C MacLeod, Portree.
NMAS 1971.
The remains of a chambered cairn at NG 4955 6757 surviving as a circular turf-covered mound 0.6m maximum height and spread to a diameter of c.8.5m robbed from the E. Two probable kerbstones in the W and three others in the S, suggest the original diameter was 7.5m. Five stones forming the W arc of the chamber survive in situ, with two others displaced, but the E half has been destroyed as has the entrance passage which was presum- ably in this arc. MacLeod (Mr C MacLeod, Garrafad, Staffin, Isle of Skye) a retired schoolmaster, found the sherds in the S half of the chamber where his care- fully filled in trench is still visible.
To the W of the cairn are a few peat-obscured stony mounds which appear to be stone clearance heaps.
Surveyed at 1/2500. (Enlargement at 1:250)
Visited by OS (I S S) 20 September 1971.
