Monument record 1444 - CORNAIG BAY, VATERSAY

NL69NW 8 636 971

A round chambered cairn with polygonal chamber and passage on the SE. There is one divisional slab on the SW side of the chamber. Found by K Brannigan.
Information to A S Henshall from P Ashmore (IAM), July 1990.

VN157 (NL63509694) A low cairn, probably about 13 m diam, originally but much robbed out on the north and west sides, in the centre of which 12 upright blocks of stone form an elongated structure that runs from the centre to the eastern edge of the cairn (Fig 2.18). This is a reasonably well-preserved but previously overlooked passage grave. The chamber is about 3.4 x 2.8 m, approached by a passage about 4 m long, which broadens as it approaches the edge of the cairn to make a small triangular courtyard 4 m wide. (Fig 9.5).
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 48

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.