Monument record 214 - SRON A'CHAIL, 'TURSACHAN', GARYNAHINE (CEANN HULAVIG), LEWIS

NB23SW 4 2297 3042.

(NB 2297 3042) Stone Circle (NR) (remains of)
OS 6' map, (1965)

A stone circle 33' in diameter, consisting of five tall thin pillar stones, each facing the interior, with a circular ring of small boulders about 12' in diameter within the circle, and a small slab, 2' high 2'8' wide and 10' thick, set on edge in the centre of the ring. The stones are spaced at irregular distances varying from 7'11' to 32', the last space to the NW suggesting that a stone has been removed. The Pillars vary from 6'9' to 9' in height and from 2'7' to 4'10' in width, the two adjoining stones on the eastern arc being flat on top and the others pointed. The area enclosed by the circle has been depleted of a 2' covering of peat, and apparently some further excavation has been made.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

A stone circle with a cairn placed eccentrically within, as described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (R L) 20 June 1969.

'The monument known as Sron a'Chail, stone circle and cairn 450m SSE of Ceann Hulavig comprises of a circle of standing stones surrounding a burial cairn, dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age periods. The area to be scheduled is irregular, with a maximum extent of 410m N-S, to include the circle, the cairn and a substantial area around in which buried evidence may survive below peat. The area is elongated N-S to preserve the sighting lines from the circle, as these form an integral part of the monument in that its function determined its setting.'
HS Scheduling Document 1 December 1992.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 28, No. 93 plan fig. 73 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A Thom, 1967a, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 127, 128 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7507.

M, G and G R Ponting, Ponting , 1976, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 57, Callanish IV/ Ceann Thulabeg (Bibliographic reference). SWE13424.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1976a, The Stone Circles of the British Isles, 148, 153, 207, 358 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2801.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1977b, The Standing Stones of Callanish, 28 (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.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1979a, Rings of Stone: the prehistoric stone circles of Britain and Ireland, 110-11, 116 (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, 19-20 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5376.

J N G and M Ritchie and Harman, 1985, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles, 143, No. 77 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6206.