Monument record 336 - DUNAN, UPPER COLL, LEWIS

NB43NE 1 4506 3819.

The much disturbed remains of a chambered cairn, 50ft in diameter and 4ft high. Towards the eastern side is the northern arc of a circular chamber, 6ft in diameter and now (in 1914) 3ft deep. Lying across the top of the chamber is a long narrow stone 8ft 8 ins long and 5ft in girth and almost parallel to it a large slab, 6ft long and 3ft wide with one end of the tumbled stones in the chamber, the other on top of the wall.
Large blocks in the SW quadrant may indicate the position of the entrance passage.
RCAHMS 1928.

This cairn situated on a low knoll is as described by RCAHMS except that its maximum height is no more than 3ft and the remains of the chamber are unconvincing: more probably they represent a modern adaptation of the remains, though the blocks still indicate that the cairn was chambered.
Visited by OS (A L F R) 20 April 1964.

To ... the owners of the Monument known as 'Dunan' (chambered cairn) situated 810 yards sout-east of the Allt ant-Sniomh (sic) at its nearest point, 600 yards north-east of Loch na h'Inghinn at its nearest point, and 1230 yards west-south-west of the point where the public road on the east coast of Lewis crosses the mouth of the Amhuinn Aonghais
being the subjects indicated in red colour on the annexed plan and being part of the property known as Coll Farm...
the Commissioners ... give you notice that it is their intention to include the Monument above specified in a list of monuments...
Schedule, 16.2.34

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 15, No. 53 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

R W Feachem, 1963b, A Guide to Prehistoric Scotland, 48 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2141.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 463-4, LWS 5 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.