Monument record 706 - CROIS CHNOCA BREACA, STONEYBRIDGE, SOUTH UIST

NF73SW 3 7340 3366.

(NF 7340 3366) Crois Chnoca Breaca (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1928)

On a small mound about 6ft high, about 100 yards. from the shore to the west of Stoneybridge, there is a standing stone 6ft 8ins. high, 1ft 4ins broad at the base and 9ins thick. Although shaped like a cross with one arm broken off (hence the name "Crois Chnoca Breaca") it is a natural formation (RCAHMS 1928). Incorrectly described as a chambered cairn on OS 1"map, (sheet No. 23)
RCAHMS 1928; A S Henshall 1972; Information from A.O. archive 930/4.

The stone is as described by RCAHMS; the grass-covered mound of stones on which it stands is probably packing material. The name is still known locally.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 10 May 1965.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 119, No. 408 fig. 121 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 534 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.