Monument record 714 - SIDHEAN BHUIRGH, BORVE, BENBECULA

NF74NE 2 7651 4978.

(NF 7651 4978) Round mound with large boulders in top.
OS 6"map, annotated by O G S Crawford, 1 June 1936.

Short cist, Sithaen Bhuirgh, Borve,Benbecula. At the extreme south-western point of the island, 110 yards south-south-east of the earth house, (see NF74NE 10) a sandy, grass-covered hillock, rising to 30ft above sea level, has seven large blocks of stone on the summit. One, on its edge, looks like the side of a cist; another looks like a cover stone.
RCAHMS 1928.

The site is generally as described above; several large stones, including the (?) cover-stone remain but the side stone has been removed.
Visited by OS (J T T) 26 May 1965.


This prominent mound was augured and found to consist of clean sand to a depth of 1.8m.
I Shepherd, I Ralston and C Maclean 1979.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 104, No. 357 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

I, I and C Shepherd, Ralston a, 1979d, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 47, no.278 (Bibliographic reference). SWE33325.