Monument record 1872 - TOB CEANN A' SGRULAIN, LEWIS

NB22NW 6 225 298.

NB 225 298 There may be two cairns on a minor headland situated between a bend in the old B8091 road and the W shore of Loch Ceann Hulavig near its upper end.
The probable kerb cairn is a circular setting 3.1m diameter and about 0.6m high, with stones set firmly in grass and some kerb stones around the circular edge. There is a hollow about 1.5m diameter in the centre. To the NE there is the suggestion of a second curve of stones 5.4m diameter which incorporates the kerb cairn. The cairn is situated on a small rock bluff immediately above the shore.
The possible burial cairn is a sub-circular grass-covered green mound 10m by 7.5m overall and nearly 1m high measured from the higher side of the sloping ground. There is a lower extension 5.3m long to the N. On the mound a sub-rectangular grass-covered annular ridge and a hollow area in the centre may represent the remains of a ruined shieling. Limited probing ascertained that there are stones under the whole area of the mound and that they are higher under the ridge than elsewhere. The ground surrounding the burial cairn slopes down to the E and has been heavily cut into broad cultivation beds, now disused. This cairn is about 25m from the shore.
The two cairns are 17m apart (centre to centre). Immediately to the E there is a semi-modern drystone wall which may have been built with stones from both cairns. To the S there are the ruins of two houses, one a blackhouse and the other of concrete and corrugated iron.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 1992.

M R and G R Curtis and Curtis, 1992f, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 86 (Bibliographic reference). SWE25406.