Monument record 1085 - OBAN NAM FIADH, NORTH UIST

NF86SW 12 8430 6244.

(NF 8417 6247) Stone Circle (NR)
OS 6'map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

A chambered cairn, near Oban nam Fiadh, which has been disturbed and robbed, is now only 5ft high.
There are remains of small enclosures and buildings round the edges, difficult to define, and the cairn material spreads over an area of c. 58 x 65ft, but an original diameter of c. 50ft is probable. An upright stone on the SE edge and another on the E possibly indicate a peristalith. The entrance is from the SSE, and the chamber, constructed of six large orthostats, is 11ft by 10ft 9ins.
Information from MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland', Vol. 2, 52-3, plan.

This chambered cairn is as described and planned by Henshall. There are at least five shieling-type structures on and around the cairn.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 3 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 110, 250-1 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 70-1, No. 218 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 524-5, UST 25 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.