Scheduled Monument
Cnoc Leathan,kerb cairn 230m S of,Upper BreascleteSM5461
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 01/12/1992
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 29/09/2023
- Type
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
- Local Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Parish
- Uig
- NGR
- NB 21656 35955
- Coordinates
- 121656, 935955
Description
The monument consists of a small burial cairn of prehistoric date, situated on a small local summit at the junction of two crofts.
The cairn is 3.2m in diameter, and has a discontinuous kerb of large stones around its perimeter: this may once have been a continuous kerb,as 4 of the 7 kerb stones surviving are contiguous. The cairn is probably of Bronze Age date.
The area to be scheduled is a square of 10m side, oriented NE-SW and NW-SE, lying exactly half in each croft and situated 27.8m S of the boundary wall between the crofts and the open hill. This area is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as a relatively rare example of an apparently undisturbed Bronze Age burial mound in the Western Isles, and for its value as part of the internationally important Callanish complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age sites. It may conceal within and beneath it evidence, accessible to excavation and analysis, for Bronze Age burial practices, economy and environment.
References
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