Monument record 1360 - COIR FHINN, NISABOST, HARRIS

NG09NW 5 0471 9664.

(NG 0471 9664) Coir' Fhinn (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Coir' Fhinn: A group of large stones represents the remains of a large chamber (17'6 x about 9'3") which has been entered uphill from the ENE(2) The cairn material was apparently removed before the end of the 18th century, (OSA 1794) and, to-day, only a few stones lie outside the chamber.
According to tradition, a skull was found below the large stone inside the chamber (one was given to the NMAS in 1860) (PSAS 1862) and a humerus and lower jaw of a human skeleton from a 'cromlech' at Hangabost (F W L Thomas 1863) given later the same year, are presumably also from this site.
Information from MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland', Vol. 2, 30-31, plan; OSA 1794; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1862; F W L Thomas 1863; RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

The scant remains of a chambered cairn, known locally as Coire na Feinne, as described and planned by Henshall.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 29 June 1969.

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

PSAS, 1857-60, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 389 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9069.

F W L Thomas, 1860-2a, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 54 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7727.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 42, No. 131 plan fig. 92, illust. fig. 98 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.