Monument record 942 - CLETTRAVAL, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 15 7499 7135.

A Clyde-type, chambered long cairn, wedge-shaped, 95ft (29m) long E-W with, at the E end, an impressive facade, mainly orthostatic, through which the chamber, c. 34 1/2 ft (10.5m) long, was entered and in front of which was a paved forecourt. A kerb consisting of massive blocks, averaging 2 1/2ft (0.7m) high can be traced in stretches. The cairn was severely damaged and robbed for the building of an iron age aisled round-house (NF77SW 24) which was inserted into its W end. The site was excavated by Scott in the 1930s and 1940s; finds from the cairn, now in NMAS, include beaker sherds.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928;W L Scott 1935; 1947; A S Henshall 1972.

This chambered cairn is so mutilated that only the chamber and passage are surveyable.
Visited by OS 17 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 254-5 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 78, No. 233 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

W L Scott, 1934-5, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 480-536 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6472.

L Scott, 1947-8, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 47-9 (appendix IV) (Bibliographic reference). SWE6438.

R W Feachem, 1963b, A Guide to Prehistoric Scotland, 50 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2141.

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

J N G Ritchie, 1969-70a, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 45 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6178.

D L Clarke, 1970, Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2, 518, No. 1668 (Bibliographic reference). SWE1060.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 506-11, UST 12 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.

J N G and M Ritchie and Harman, 1985, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles, 151, no. 87 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6206.

I Kinnes, 1985, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 45, No. 4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4689.