Monument record 212 - 'TURSACHAN', CNOC FILLIBHIR BHEAG, CALLANISH

NB23SW 2 2250 3269.

(NB 2250 3269) Stone Circle (NR)
OS 6" map, (1965)

Two concentric circles of standing stones, the outer ring composed of eight erect and five prostrate stones, and the inner ring of four erect stones. The outer circle averages 53' in diameter and the erect stones range from 5'10" to 3'3" in height. The inner averages 28' in diameter and the stones range in height from 7' to 4'7".
All these stones are packed at base with small boulders.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1911

A stone circle as described and planned by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (R L) 20 June 1969.

'The monument...comprises of a stone circle, a sub circular stone setting, a small cairn with nearby fallen standing stone and a further, broken, standing stone. The area to be scheduled is irregular in plan, to include the circle, cairn, two stone settings, the broken standing stone and the fallen standing stone, together with an area around, in which evidence may survive below the peat from the construction and use of these features...(Callanish Little Circle).'
HS Scheduling Document 9th November 1992.

W M Mackenzie, 1903-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 190 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4589.

B Somerville, 1912b, J Roy Anthrop Inst, 39-41, no. II.2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7993.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 27-8, No. 91 plan fig. 72 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A Thom, 1967a, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 126-7, 138 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7507.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1976a, The Stone Circles of the British Isles, 148, 153, 309, 358 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2801.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1977b, The Standing Stones of Callanish, 27 (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.

G R Curtis, 1979, Hebridean Naturalist, 33-5, 38 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13315.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1979a, Rings of Stone: the prehistoric stone circles of Britain and Ireland, 108-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2803.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1984a, The Stones around Callanish: a guide to the minor megalithic sites of the Callanish area, 16-18 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5376.

I A G Shepherd, 1986a, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Grampian, 141-3, no. 76 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6610.

J Close-Brooks, 1986a, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: the Highlands, 143 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9210.