Monument record 917 - TIGH CLOICHE, SOUTH CLETTRAVAL, NORTH UIST

NF77SE 14 7516 7101.

(NF 7516 7101) Tigh Chloiche (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Tigh Chloiche, South Clettraval, a chambered cairn, has been much disturbed by secondary buildings and its present form bears little relationship to its original plan.
The narrow and almost parallel-sided chamber is surrounded on the N, E and S by traces of what appear to be circular buildings. Four orthostats of the chamber remain on the SW but the northern part cannot be traced. The entrance was from the E but nothing can be seen of the passage walls. Large flat stone slabs lie displaced outside the chamber and, whereas the extent of the cairn is fairly well marked to the N. and E., it drops to an extensive low spread to the S and SE.
Finds of potsherds are in the NMAS.
A S Henshall 1972, visited 2 May 1962.

The remains of this chambered cairn are as described and planned by Henshall. At least two sub-oval buildings (the larger 5.0m by 4.0m) lie among the cairn stones and there are the possible outlines of another in the cairn debris to the south.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 17 June 1965.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 113-14, No. 386 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

R Miller, 1967, Scot Stud, 214 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5595.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 528, UST 28 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.