Monument record 1071 - AIRIDH NAN SEILICHEAG, NORTH UIST

NF86NW 8 8366 6878.

(NF 8366 6878) Airidh nan Seilicheag ia a much robbed and disturbed long cairn, aligned WNW to ESE, near the W extremity of Loch Scadavay. Most of the cairn material is in the western half (which also contains the chamber) and is from 6 to 8ft high, dwindling away about 95ft from the west end. Beyond this, a rocky ridge continues which may have been part of the cairn. A passage at the west end leads into an irregular chamber 11ft by 14ft.
It was investigated by E Beveridge before 1911, who found a fragment of charred bone in the passage (which he thought to be a smaller chamber). This is in the NMAS, together with an Iron Age sherd.
E Beveridge 1911; Information from MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland' Vol. 2, 2-3, plan.

This much mutilated cairn is as described and planned by Henshall. A group of nine stone-built shielings, the best preserved no more than 0.4m high, lie around the perimeter of the cairn and, in some cases, intrude.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (J T T) 8 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 249-50 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 75-6, No. 226 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 496-7, UST 2 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.