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Muck, Aird Nan Uan
Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Muck, Aird Nan Uan
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ard Nan Uan; Gallanach
Canmore ID 22194
Site Number NM48SW 1
NGR NM 40111 80676
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22194
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (7 July 1925)
Cairns.
On the outer end of Ard nan Uan, the north-westerly point of Muck, are two cairns 26 and 18¼ feet long and 23 and 18 feet broad. Both are very greatly denuded.
RCAHMS 1928, visited by 7 July 1925.
OS map: Islands of Eigg and Muck (Inverness-shire) lxxii.
Field Visit (11 May 1972)
A cairn (A), at NM 4011 8068, measuring 8.0m in diameter and 0.6m high. Kerb stones are visible intermittently around the periphery. The centre is occupied by a burial enclosure of the MacEwans of Muck, and is marked by a circle of stones on edge 3.0m in diameter. According to Mr C MacDonald, of Carn Dearg, Port Mor, Muck, when the first MacEwen burial was inserted in the 1920s, there was no trace of a cist although a few burnt ashes were seen.
About 20 metres to the S is the second cairn (B), visible as a mutilated peat-covered stony mound c.5.5m in diameter and 0.4m high. About 70m and 100m S of 'B' are two low peat-covered mounds showing some stones, measuring c.7.5m and c.5.0m in diameter respectively. Classification uncertain, but possibly cairns.
'A' and 'B' surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (AA) 11 May 1972
Field Visit (15 May 2002)
There are two cairns on the N tip of Aird nan Uan. The northern (Muck02 146) measures 8.2m in diameter over a boulder kerb and 0.6m in height. There is a gap in the kerb on the N, where the stones have been moved to form part of the recent MacEwen burial-enclosure. The other cairn (Muck02 147) lies about 20m to the SSE and measures 5.3m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. There is evidence that the top of the cairn has been disturbed.
(Muck02, 146-7)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, SDB) 15 May 2002
