Monument record 1320 - CNOC NA GREINE, BERNERAY

NF98SW 2 9230 8187.

(NF 9230 8187) Possible burial chamber with no signs of a cairn. It stands on a knowe, Cnoc na Greana, about 200 yards NE of the Unitied Free Church.
Only three upright stones and a prostrate stone remain. The largest stone, on the W side, is 5ft 5ins high. Other prone slabs to the N and NW may be detected below the turf. These stones may have been part of a chamber.
The OSA notes the large stone with a circle of stones less than 10ft in diameter 'which surrounds it'; the circle being 'made up of long sharp pointed stones, laid not very close together, but so as a man may pass betwixt every two'.
This is almost certainly the site in which was found a 'human lower jaw and portion of another' donated to the NMAS by Capt F W L Thomas in 1860.
RCAHMS 1928; F W L Thomas 1862; OSA 1794; Information contained in MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland', Vol. 2, 29, No. 18, plan.

The four stones, situated in an area of scattered outcrop rock, are as described above. There is no definite trace of a circle of stones or remains of a cairn.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 20 June 1965.

OSA, The Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. 10, 374 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5882.

PSAS, 1860-2, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 54 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10445.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 43, No. 134 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.