31895: ECC 2.4 Eilean Chalium Cille

Summary:

CAIRN (Early Prehistoric – 500000 BC to 4001 BC)
KERB CAIRN? (Early Prehistoric – 500000 BC to 4001 BC)
Kerbed cairn

Location:

NB 37905 20996

Full description:

"Situated under the east end of clearance cairn (5.1) the remains of this possible kerbed cairn measure 2.5 metres in diameter and stand to no more than 0.25 metres. A possible kerb can be discerned on the east and south sides of the modern cairn which consists of a number of large boulders dumped on the earlier feature and a pile of smaller stones to the west. If this feature is a kerbed cairn it is likely to form part of a group of such structures located on the crest of the ridge behind the south shore of Eilean Chalium Cille (2.1, 2.2, 2.3)". (Burgess 2004, 75)

References:

Chris Burgess, Northamptonshire Archaeology. 2004. Northamptonshire Archaeology Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of Eilean Chalium Chille and the Putative Site of the Seaforth Head Castle. Part No Loch Seaforth Head Gazeteer.

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.