Monument record 1200 - BUAILE MAARI, NORTH UIST

Summary

Four probable burial cairns, surmounted by shielings

Location

Grid reference NF 86200 72400 (point)
Map sheet NF87SE
Island North Uist
Parish NORTH UIST, Western Isles

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NF87SE 8 862 724.

(Area : NF 862 725) Three large contiguous stony mounds are situated at the southern foot on Maari at 200ft OD on a sloping shelf below cliffs at Buaile Maari. All three have shielings over them and remains of enclosures nearby. The two smaller mounds are oval and presumably burial cairns. The easternmost mound (about 144ft long with a maximum width of 75ft) seems to be a long cairn.
What appears to be a capstone 12ft 9ins long by 5ft 6ins lies a little in front of the summit some 30ft from the NW end. Lying transverely to the axis of the cairn and to one side of it. Various stones project through the turf, but do not form any recognisable plan and probably do not belong to any structure.
Information from MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland', Vol. 2, 13.

At NF 8623 7246 there are four mounds, the alleged 'long cairn' described above being two separate contiguous mounds, 20.0m x 17.0m x 2.2m high and 18.0m x 16.0m x 2.28m high.
Of the other two mounds, the eastern is 16.0m x 10.0m x 2.2m high and the western 10.0m x 8.0m x 0.8m.
All the mounds have had one or more shielings built on them and two further shielings are visible 4.0m to the east of the mounds.
Although the shielings obscure any traces of chambers, these mounds are most probably burial cairns.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (N K B) 18 June 1965.


A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 504, no. UST 8 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.

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  • --- Bibliographic reference: A. Henshall. 1972a. The Chambered Tombs of Scotland. 2. 504, no. UST 8.

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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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