Monument record 1087 - CARAVAT BARP, CAIRNISH, NORTH UIST

NF86SW 14 8367 6031.

(NF 8367 6031) Barpa (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

The western half of Carvat Barp, a chambered cairn, has been little disturbed, but the eastern half much so, with buildings and enclosures built up against it. The length of the cairn (excluding the spread at the NE corner) is about 165ft: the width at the E end is c. 85ft with the sides narrowing to a point at the west end. A peristalith of split stones, set on their sides or ends, is traceable in places along the sides of the cairn.
At the east end there seems to have been a wide shallow forecourt, for a horn can be traced at the SE corner running to the SE.
The chamber, which has been entered from the east end, is indicated by six slabs and several large flat stones, which might be displaced corbel or roofing slabs.
A S Henshall 1972.

This chambered cairn is as described and planned by Henshall. A large circular stock enclosure abuts the east end of the cairn and several shielings and at least one rectangular building lie amongst the cairn material.
The shielings are generally hollows in the stones with no pretensions of walling. The cairn has an approximate height of 2.0m.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 8 June 1965.

The entry in the Schedule of monuments ... is hereby ... amended to describe the area of the scheduled monument as rectangular and measures 160m from WNW to ESE by 95m transversely, to include the monument and an area around it in which remains associated with its construction and use may survive...
Historic Scotland Schedule entry 17.3.2000

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 245 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 71-2, No. 220 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 505-6, UST 10 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.