Monument record 995 - SIG MORE, CARNAN, SOUTH UIST

NF84NW 2 8099 4549.

(NF 8099 4549)(Cairn visible on RAF air photographs CPE/SCOT/372/4282-3) A denuded chambered cairn is situated on a rocky tidal islet off the north coast of South Uist, 1 mile south-east of the causeway to Benbecula. Almost no cairn material remains round the edges, which was surrounded by a peristalith, about 60ft in diameter, all the stones of which are now prostrate. The cairn material around the chamber is about 5ft high. The entrance, on the east,is 10ft within the line of the peristalith.
RCAHMS 1928; Information from TS of A S Henshall, 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland Vol. 2', 55-6.

The cairn is generally as described above.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 26 May 1965.

As described above, erosion impact is along the northeastern side of the cairn and runs up to the area around the passage entrance.
K.Murphy (CnES Arch Service) 15/03/2024

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 113, No. 385 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 526, UST 27 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.