Monument record 1359 - CLACH MHIC LEOID, HARRIS

NG09NW 4 0409 9720.

(NG 0408 9727) Clach Mhic Leoid (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Clach Mhic Leoid: a very fine standing stone 10' 6" in height, 4' 6" in breadth and from 10-16" in diameter. The base is packed with small boulders to a distance of from 3-4ft, while two slabs (over 3' long) are set on edge, at right angles to the face of the standing stone, and 8'6" distant from it, to the W.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

Clach Mhic Leoid, a standing stone as described by the RCAHMS. The other two slabs resemble the kerb stones of a cairn, and a large quantity of rubble stones around the standing stone, about 6.0m in diameter, suggest that there may have been a cairn here, but insufficient remains to be certain.
The OS 1:10,000 map places it at 0409 9720
Visited by OS (N K B) 29 June 1969.

H139 NG 03990 97260. 'Macleod Stone'. Standing stone c. 3m tall and c. 1.3m wide with wedging stones in area around base (RCHAMS No 135).

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

A Thom, 1967a, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 99, 129, 138 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7507.

R W Feachem, 1977, Guide to Prehistoric Scotland, 78-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2159.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1977b, The Standing Stones of Callanish (Bibliographic reference). SWE13307.

D C Heggie, 1981, Megalithic Science: ancient mathematics and astronomy in north-west Europe, 157 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9604.