Monument record 1082 - CARINISH, NORTH UIST

NF86SW 1 8321 6021.

Stone Circle, Carinish. A ruined circle, some 136ft E-W and 128ft N-S, consisting of at least sixteen stones, of which ten, broken, badly tilted or prostrate, remained in August 1928: the positions of others were indicated by the smaller stones which had been packed around their bases. Eleven of the stones are in the N semicircle and five in the S. The best stone, some 8ft long by 2ft wide by 1 1/2ft thick, lies at the extreme E end. The next, on the NW arc, is 6ft long, and the only stone even partially erect, just over 3ft high and 3 1/2ft broad, is on the S arc. (RCAHMS 1928)
E Beveridge (1911) found five stones erect out of the fourteen which he could identify, giving a diameter to the circle of 120ft E-W and 90ft N-S. He adds that outside the west end of the circle were two other fallen slabs, one recently broken through the middle as if for carrying away.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

This ruined stone circle is now bisected by the re-routed A 865. Seven stones are on the N side and two on the S side of the road. of the remainder it is possible that some stones, now flush with the ground, may constitute part of the circle but the construction of the road has made accurate observation difficult.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 8 June 1965.

Since the OS visit, the road has been widened, causing further damage to the stone circle. It was scheduled only very recently, after the damage had been done. MML 15.3.99

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 260 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 83, No. 248 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1976a, The Stone Circles of the British Isles, 147, 358 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2801.

AOC Archaeology Group, 2022, Aird 11 Kv Cabling Works, Carinish. North Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41294.