Lewis, Tigh A' Bheannaich
Stone Setting(S) (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Lewis, Tigh A' Bheannaich
Classification Stone Setting(S) (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 4028
Site Number NB03NW 3
NGR NB 0393 3789
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4028
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Uig
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NB03NW 3 0393 3789
See also NB03NW 1, NB03NW 2 and NB 03NW 5.
(Area: NB 039 378) Two nearly circular settings of stones 4' apart and measuring 3' and 2 1/2' in diameter respectively lie some 46 yards east of the church (NB03NW 1) and in line with its north wall.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.
Two settings of stones at NB 0393 3789, of indeterminate age and purpose, as described by RCAHMS. They occur on low ground at the base of outcrop rock and are probably modern.
Visited by OS (R L), 1 July 1969.
NB 0386 3791 Monastic settlement, Tigh a'Bheannaich. A fieldwalking and mapping exercise was executed around the chapel of Tigh a'Bheannaich (House of the Blessed) (NMRS NB03NW 1, NB03NW 2, NB03NW 3, NB03NW 5 ) located to the W of the township of Aird Uig. The stone-built chapel is enclosed on a broad promontory by a large wall that runs from the southern cliffs to an inland loch and from there to the northern sea cliffs. This wall survives as well-built drystone coursing up to 2m in height at its S end, but continues N of the loch as a mainly earth bank with small stones and turf.
Surrounding the chapel are 10-12 cellular structures with diameters ranging from 2-3m. Many of these structures are located amongst bare rock on W-facing sea cliffs and have suffered extensive erosion. To the N of the chapel are six cairns of varying sizes (2-4m in diameter). Two of these cairns are kerbed and may be prehistoric.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, University of Edinburgh, Dept of Archaeology.
C Burgess, M Church and S Gilmour 1998.
Field Visit (20 June 1914)
Cairns, near Teampull, Tigh a' Bheannaich, Aird, Uig.
[NB03NW 2] On very rough ground, occupying the summit of rocky knolls to the west and north-west of the small loch which lies some 90 yards north-west of the church, are several small cairns of stone up to 9 feet in diameter and about 1 ½ feet in height, and some 37 feet to the east of this, the most westerly of the three lochs, is a cairn 14 feet in diameter and 2 feet in height.
[NB03NW 3] Some 46 yards east of the church, in line with its northern wall, are two nearly circular settings of stone 4 feet apart and measuring 3 feet and 2 ½ feet in diameter respectively.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 20 June 1914.
OS map: Lewis xvi (unnoted).
Note
Title: Chapel-sites on the Isle of Lewis: Results of the Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey
Journal: SCOTTISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERNET REPORTS (e-ISSN: 2056-7421)
Author: Barrowman, R C
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date: 2020
MCE (2023): Reviewed as part of the GAPR. Publication was completed in 2020. Open Access publication with SAIR. Publication grant-aided by HES.
