Monument record 1913 - ARD NA MOINE, BREASCLETE, LEWIS

NB23SW 30 2158 3486

There is a stone standing 1m NE of a fence in a pasture field between the Mill House and Stonefield housing estate. It is about 110m from the Stonefield standing stone (NB23SW 5).
The stone slab is 60cm long from E to W, 8cm thick, and 85cm high of which 40cm lies below the present ground surface. The stone is surrounded by 4 or 5 buried stones, probably packing stones.
The stands in 30cm to 45cm of peat overlying the usual galcial till. It is located about 30m E of a very gentle summit, is oriented at about 245 degrees, and has a good view of the Callanish area and upper East Loch Roag.
The slope of land immediately NE is known locally as Blair, which translates as plain or battlefield, but no specific event has been traced.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 1992

NB 2158 3486 The standing stone previously reported has been removed due to agricultural land improvement. The adjacent stones (?packing stones) and a number of other putative stone settings in the vicinity have also been removed and buried near the E corner of the field.
Shortly before this event fieldwalking produced over 600 pieces of quartz, 7 flints, 19th-century pottery and a clay pipe.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 2001, 104

M R and G R Curtis and Curtis, 1992d, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 85 (Bibliographic reference). SWE25404.

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 2001, Discovery and Escavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41185.