Monument record 1148 - CROIS MHIC JAMAIN, PORT NAN LONG, NORTH UIST

NF87NE 8 8937 7819.

(NF 8937 7818) Crois Mhic Jamain (NR) Human remains found A.D. 1862
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Standing Stones, Crois Mhic Jamain. On two grass-covered contiguous mounds raised on the highest extremity of a slight rocky ridge, and lying NE-SW.
They each measure some 24ft in diameter and rise some 4ft above the general level of the ground. On the summit of each hillock is a small standing stone, the distance between them being 18ft 6ins. The SW slab is rectangular, measuring 3ft in height, 1ft 10ins in breadth and 6ins in thickness: the other is an irregular block 1ft 7ins in height and 5ft in girth (RCAHMS 1928).
A very large skull is said to have been found here.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

These stones are as described above.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 2 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 277 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 81, No. 243 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.