Monument record 1116 - CRAONAVAL SOUTH, NORTH UIST

Summary

Cairn

Location

Grid reference NF 83320 62900 (point)
Map sheet NF86SW
Island North Uist
Parish NORTH UIST, Western Isles

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Full Description

NF86SW 41 8332 6290.

A conspicuous, turf-covered, stony mound, robbed and disturbed for se condary buildings on and beside it, but probably a burial cairn, though it has no diagnostic features.
A S Henshall 1972.

The cairn measures centred 22m NW-SE by centred 19m across and is less than 2.4m high.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS, 8 June 1965.


RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 72, No. 222 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 512, UST 14 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: A. Henshall. 1972a. The Chambered Tombs of Scotland. 2. 512, UST 14.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: RCAHMS. 1928. The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. 72, No. 222.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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