Monument record 2485 - CEANN A'GHARAODH, 'TURSACHAN', NEAR CALLANISH (CNOC CEANN), LEWIS

NB23SW 3 2220 3260.

(NB 2220 3260) Stone Circle (NR) (remains of)
OS 6"map, (1965)

A circle of tall, thin standing stones surrounding a cairn, the original character of which cannot now be determined with certainty.
The cairn measures 28' in diameter and 1' in height and shows in its centre an excavated cavity 6' in diameter.
The stones, of which five are erect and two prostrate range from 10'9" to 6'6" in height. A slab 4'8" long by 1'9" in greatest breadth lies in front of the most westerly erect stone, pointing towards the centre of the circle, which is 65' in diameter.
RCAHMS 1928.

A stone circle with a cairn placed eccentrically within it, generally as described and planned by RCAHMS. The stones are on the same leel as the surrounding ground, but the interior is slightly sunken.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (R L) 20 June 1969.

'The monument known as Ceann a Gharaodh, stone circle and cairn 250m N of comprises a circle of standing stones surrounding a much reduced burial cairn, both dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age periods. The area to be scheduled is an irregular triangle, bounded on the N, W and S by modern fences (which are themselves excluded) and including the circle and the cairn together with an area around them in which evidence relating to their construction and subsequent history may survive.'
HS Scheduling Document 2 Novemeber 1992.

PSAS, 1857-60, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 202-3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9069.

J Stuart, 1857-60c, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 212-14 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7061.

W M Mackenzie, 1903-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 190-1 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4589.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, XXXII, 27, No. 90 plan fig. 66-7, 71 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A Thom, 1967a, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 126 fig. 11.3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7507.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1976a, The Stone Circles of the British Isles, 143, 148, 358 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2801.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1977b, The Standing Stones of Callanish (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, 3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7614.

G R Curtis, 1979, Hebridean Naturalist, 32-8 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13315.

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

J N G and M Ritchie and Harman, 1985, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles, 141-3, No. 76 illusts (Bibliographic reference). SWE6206.

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