Monument record MHG4107 - Eyre Point, Raasay

NG53SE 1 5805 3426.

(NG 5805 3426) Stone Cist (NR).
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Stone Cist, Eyre Point, Raasay (No description).
RCAHMS 1928.

Some 80m N of the lighthouse at Eyre Point, upon an old raised beach, about 20ft OD, are the remains of a cairn in the centre of which there is a megalithic cist.
The cairn, extensively robbed, measures 17.0m in diameter and 1.0m in height. The cist orientated E-W, measures internally 1.4m in length, 1.1m in width and 1.0m in height, and comprises four stones set on edge with a large capstone. The E. end stone is only 0.2m in height above the present floor level and here the cap- stone is supported at the SE corner by a standing stone 0.9m in height. The capstone measures 2.4m by 1.9m and is 0.4m thick.
Visited by OS (A S P) 8 June 1961.

A cairn as described by OS (A S P). Two contiguous stones on edge in the N arc may be the remains of a kerb.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (I S S) 22 September 1971.

Surveyed by ACFA 2003 (SMR report no. 1430) Believed to be a Hebridean type chamber cairn.
(DEH 20/04/05)