Monument record MHG10585 - Cnoc Bad A' Chlair

NC73SE 3 7546 3270.

(NC 7546 3270) Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)

The cairn, found during field investigation (OS {EGC}) is on a sloping site in the lower reaches of a W-facing hillside, just north of hut circle settlement (See NC73SE4). A setting of four stones, overall length 1.2m, one metre outside the periphery on the downside, the west, is most likely revetting of a base platform. The cairn, 11.0m diameter by 1.3m high and mainly turf-covered, is opened out from the south side towards the centre by a cutting, about 4.5m long and on average 1.5m wide, terminating on a transverse boulder slab 1.2m in length and protruding to 0.2m. Its size and position may indicate a back-slab of an Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn. Several other slabs are exposed but these form no pattern of a chamber.
Visited by OS (EGC) 17 May 1961 and (JM) 9 February 1977.