Monument record 11892 - LEWIS, LOCH BHARAVAT

NB23SW 75 c. 224 342

NB 224 342 On the E shoreline of the loch, about 50m N of an E-W fence, there is a stone setting (cist or well?) of nearly 20 stones about 80cm N-S and 90cm E-W, and at least 20cm high with a central cavity, topped with a roundish horizontal slab, making the overall height about 40cm. The cover slab slopes slightly down to the shore. A pointed stone, 46 x 22cm, seems to have fallen outwards towards the shore.
It may be that, before Loch Bharavat was dammed in about 1850 (DES 1997, 86), the water did not reach this setting, and that it has since been partly eroded on the W side by wave action causing the pointed stone to fall out and the cover slab to settle slightly towards the shore.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 2001, 104.

REPORT DATE: 18/06/2002

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 2001, Discovery and Escavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41185.