Site Event/Activity record EWE367 - Excavation of a Cairn at Cnip
Location
| Location | Cnip Headland, Uig. Isle of Lewis |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | Centred NB 0996 3638 (14m by 13m) |
| Map sheet | NB03NE |
| Island | Lewis |
| Parish | UIG, Western Isles |
Technique(s)
Organisation
National Museums of Scotland
Date
Not recorded.
Description
A Bronze Age cairn of three periods, each associated with a burial, overlying a ploughed soil. The first burial was an inhumation in a short cist under an unusual D-shaped cairn with a well-defined kerb. This cairn was disturbed when a hole was dug through it for a small corbelled cist containg a cremation urn. Finally a kerb cairn with two concentric kerbs was built over the earlier structures. Within the central ring of the kerb cairn was an un-urned cremation burial.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SWE41417 Article in serial: J Close-Brooks. 1995. Excavation of a Cairn at Cnip, Uig. Isle of Lewis.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- 53 BHALTOS, Uig, Lewis (Monument)
Record last edited
Jun 23 2026 5:12PM
