Monument record 1993 - BAY HUNADU, MINGULAY

NL58SE 49 5695 8445

MY10. One of a group of (threatened) ring cairns built on naturally flat shelving descending to dyke and sea between McPhees Hill and Tom a'Reithean. Four metres in diameter with slightly mounded soil centre and well-defined kerb of blocks up to 50 cm in size. Surrounding peat soils are eroding and have deflated to the edge of the cairn.
K Branigan 1993; NMRS, MS/595/9 and MS/595/10.

MY10 (NL56948446) Cairn.
Location: Inside dyke.
Description: Oval, 3 x 2 m, flat-topped mound with ring of stone around upper perimeter.
Note: Excavated site, see Chapter 7, p. 307. Covered by heather.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 97

K Branigan, 1993b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 109 (Bibliographic reference). SWE28576.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.