Monument record MHG5757 - Garafad
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NG 4955 6756 (300m by 300m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NG46NE |
| Geographical Area | SKYE AND LOCHALSH |
| Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | KILMUIR |
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Full Description
NG46NE 12 4955 6757.
(NG 494 676) Beaker sherds and plain sherds found with cremated bone at a site, possibly a ring-cairn, at Cadha Riach, were donated to the NMAS in 1970 by C C MacLeod, Portree.
NMAS 1971.
The remains of a chambered cairn at NG 4955 6757 surviving as a circular turf-covered mound 0.6m maximum height and spread to a diameter of c.8.5m robbed from the E. Two probable kerbstones in the W and three others in the S, suggest the original diameter was 7.5m. Five stones forming the W arc of the chamber survive in situ, with two others displaced, but the E half has been destroyed as has the entrance passage which was presum- ably in this arc. MacLeod (Mr C MacLeod, Garrafad, Staffin, Isle of Skye) a retired schoolmaster, found the sherds in the S half of the chamber where his carefully filled in trench is still visible.
To the W of the cairn are a few peat-obscured stony mounds which appear to be stone clearance heaps.
Surveyed at 1/2500. (Enlargement at 1:250)
Visited by OS (I S S) 20 September 1971.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG2584 Text/Report: NMAS. 1971. Annual report 1970-1. . 7.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM
