Monument record 2686 - LOCH BHARAVAT, LEWIS

NB23SW 66 2233 3429

NB 2233 3429 Sub-circular structure, about 15m across at its base, and about 10 x 9m at the top; about 1.3-1.9m high above its sloping bottom. Built of stones generally 0.25-0.6m, with a selection of larger stones up to 1.1m long.
The present top of the structure may have been robbed. It is irregular, with a slight depression near the centre and with an adjacent modern small cairn built to the W of centre.
Following the damming of Loch Bharavat, the structure now stands in water about 1.1-1.7m deep and only about 0.2m of it is above water. The Norse name Bharavat implies a building on or surrounded by water, and pre-dates the dam. The site is marked as an islet on the 6" OS map of 1853.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 1997

M R and G R Curtis and Curtis, 1997b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 86 (Bibliographic reference). SWE40617.