Monument record 958 - TIGHARRY, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 4 centred 7084 7202.

An inhumation in a short cist was found by a crofter in his garden at Tighary. The grave was cleared of its contents, which included 'a skull so vast that when placed on his (the finder's) own head it covered his shoulders'. The bones were later re-interred.
J V S Megaw and D D A Simpson 1963; J V S Megaw 1963.

Approx. NF 7084 7202. Mr Macdonald (Tighary) stated that the skull and cist were uncovered by his grandfather, about 100 years ago, close to a spot where he himself dug up a skeleton, of no great age, in 1956. There is no evidence of a cist to be seen at the site. Visited by OS ( J T T) 24 June 1965.

J V S Megaw, 1956-7, Folklore, 484 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13160.

J V S and D D A Megaw and Simp, 1960-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 78 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5565.