Monument record 1224 - CAILLEACHA DUBHA, BORERAY

NF88SE 2 8571 8160.

(NF 8571 8160) Cailleacha Dubha (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Cailleacha Dubha, a long cist or cairn (RCAHMS 1928).
Now no vestige of cairn material, but a row of three large upright stones is probably part of the N wall of either a passage or chamber of a chambered cairn, and 4ft to the S an almost parallel row of six prostrate stones may have formed the other wall of the structure. To the N a large slab (8 x 6 x 1ft) is probably a displaced capstone.
A S Henshall 1972; RCAHMS 1928.

This burial chamber is as described by Henshall.
Visited by OS (J T T) 31 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 253 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 70, No. 217 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 504, UST 9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.