Monument record 189 - 'TURSACHAN', AIRIDH NAM BIDEARAN, GARYNAHINE

NB21NW 1 2342 2989.

(NB 2342 2989) Stone Circle (NR) (remains of)
OS 6"map, (1965)

Five standing stones apparently forming the western arc of a large circle. They vary from 2'6" to 3'6" in height.
Without excavation it is impossible to say whether some 'stones' just appearing above the peat further down the slope are pillar stones or earth-fast boulders.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914

An arc of five upright slabs on a N facing slope. Although situated in a skyline position when viewed from the W, the fact that two of the stones are set very close to each other whilst the others are widely spaced, and the total lack of others on the circumference of a deduced circle of c.100.0m, casts doubt on this being the remains of a stong circle. It is possible that they form part of a field or enclosure wall, but if so any other trace of it is under the peat. The stones further down the slope appear to be out-cropping natural boulders.
Visited by OS (A A) 9 July 1969.

W M Mackenzie, 1903-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 193 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4589.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 28-9, No. 94 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A Thom, 1967a, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 127, 138 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7507.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1976a, The Stone Circles of the British Isles, 148, 357 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2801.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1977b, The Standing Stones of Callanish, 28-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13307.

University of Glasgow, Departm, 1978, Callanish: a map of the standing stones and circles at Callanish, Isle of Lewis (Bibliographic reference). SWE13317.

A and A S Thom and Thom, 1978a, J Hist Astron, 172-3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7614.

C L N Ruggles, 1981a, Brit Archaeol Rep, 164 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6661.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1984a, The Stones around Callanish: a guide to the minor megalithic sites of the Callanish area, 21-3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5376.