Monument record 1068 - UNIVAL, LEACACH AN TIGH CHLOICHE, NORTH UIST

NF86NW 4 8003 6685

See also NF86NW 18 - Iron age house.

A square cairn, with a Hebridean type chamber, excavated by Scott in 1935 and 1939 (W L Scott 1950). It measures 53ft (16.1m) along each side and 4ft (1.2m) in maximum height. The facade in the ESE and the peristalith, where visible, are of orthosta ts alternating with drystone walling. The chamber, entered through the facade, contained a cist-like structure with inhumations. Pottery from the cairn included Grooved Ware, Beaker and Cinerary Urn as well as its definitive round-based ware. Some 23ft (7m) from the SW corner of the cairn is a standing stone, 10ft (3m) high and 5ft (1.5m) wide, facing the centre of the cairn. In the early iron age a stone-walled house (NF86NW 18) was built into the NE corner of the cairn.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928; W L Scott 1948; A S Henshall 1972.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 252 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 76-7, No. 228 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

J G Scott, 1947-8, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 1-49 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6363.

PSAS, 1950-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 183 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9020.

D L Clarke, 1970, Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2, 518, No. 1671 (Bibliographic reference). SWE1060.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 529-34, UST 34 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.

J N G and M Ritchie and Harman, 1985, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles, 154, no. 91 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6206.

I Kinnes, 1985, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 45, No. 2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4689.