31363: KIRKIBOST, GREAT BERNERA – CAIRN (Undated)
Summary:
CAIRN (Undated)
Cairn
Location:
NB 189 340
Full description:
NB13SE 16 189 340.
Adjacent to kerb cairn (NB13SE 13) there is a flat-topped mound of stones and grass, approximately 15m long including tumble in an E-W direction and 6m wide. It is now about 1.4m high. At its W end it falls over steeply sloping ground and the tumble stones lie between natural rocks. Two or three larger stones on top and a small protruding ridge of rock may indicate the position of a burial.
It is located immediately W of, and slightly lower than, the kerb cairn, which it may touch. A field wall running up to the cairn is not shown on the 6" OS map of 1898 but does appear on the 1:10000 OS map. This suggests a late date for the robbing of stones.
Both cairns are on Croft No. 18, belonging to Mr Norman Morrison.
G R Curtis and M R Curtis 1991g.
References:
1991. ‘Totarol, Kirkibost, Great Bernera (Uig parish): burial cairn’, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland. 76
Acknowledgement:
Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.
Record Location
Details
- Record Type:
- Historical or Archaeological Site
- Type Of Site:
- Cairn
- SMRRecord ID:
- MWE74122
- Record Maintained by:
- CEBL