Monument record 1020 - GRAMISDALE, BENBECULA

NF85NW 2 8250 5614.

(NF 8250 5614) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

The remains of a stone circle are visible about 100 yards north of the stone circle SE of Gramsidale (NF85NW 3) and within 250 yards of the southern shore of the North Ford, comprising a standing stone 5ft high and two prostrate stones, lying about 42ft WNW and 37ft SW.
RCAHMS 1928.

Henshall notes the stumps or fragments of ten stones besides the standing stone, giving a diameter of about 100ft. There is no sign of a cairn inside the circle but there is a prostrate slab to the east of the centre of the circle.
Information from MS of A S Henshall 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland, Vol.2, 62.

The remains of the stone circle are as described by Henshall.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 8 May 1965.

A Neolithic or Early Bronze Age stone circle at NGR NF 8250 5614, close to the reputed site of Gramisdale cross, was a sdescribed in the NMRS, except tha the entry mistakenly gives the distance from circle (SMR 1021) as 100 yards. This is presumably a typing error, as 1000 yards would be more accurate. The circle occupeis a wide, low knoll of short grass and moss…
Fyles 2006, 7

NMRS Description appears correct, Distance between the stone circle and the cross site is approx 160 yards /150m
K. Murphy 06/2016

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 103-4, No. 353 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 528, UST 31 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.

A, A S and [H] A [W] Thom, Tho, 1980, Brit Archaeol Rep, 314-15 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE7630.

Chris Fyles, SUAT Ltd, 2006, Archaeological Walkover Survey, AIRD, Benbecula (Unpublished document). SWE41084.