Scheduled Monument
Sidhean Cleite Thog,cairn and settlement,ScaliscroSM5931
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
- 03/03/1994
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 10/07/2023
- Type
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain), Secular: settlement, including deserted and depopulated and townships
- Local Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Parish
- Uig
- NGR
- NB 13864 25539
- Coordinates
- 113864, 925539
Description
The monument consists of a large mound, probably the remains of a prehistoric cairn, on which are set the ruins of a farmstead. The latter was cleared of inhabitants before 1845.
The monument is set at 35m OD on a ridge overlooking the S end of Little Loch Roag. It has a well-drained location in generally wet ground. The mound stands at least 2.5m high, being highest towards the S. It is pear-shaped on plan, 45m long N-S by 25m above the surrounding boggy ground, but probably extending outwards under the peat. The mound is composed of large cobbles and a few larger stones, up to 1.2m across.
Several large slabs may represent the remains of structural elements of the cairn, but the disturbance by later
building makes this uncertain. On top of the mound is a ruined blackhouse with adjacent store. The house is 17.7m by 3.5m internally, with an extension to the N measuring 5.1m by 3.6m. Behind the house, to the E, is a storehouse measuring 8.5m by 3.5m internally. The house's floor rises on to the crest of the mound.
The area to be scheduled is circular, 95m in diameter, centred on the centre of the house, to include the house and associated structures and the underlying cairn or mound together with an area around them in which evidence relating to their construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as a probably undisturbed prehistoric burial cairn, with the potential for the recovery from chamber and other deposits of information relating to prehistoric ritual and funerary practices. It has a separate importance as the remains of a well-preserved simple farmstead of the later 18th or early 19th century, with the potential to provide information about agriculture and rural conditions immediately prior to the agricultural and sporting reorganisation of the majority of the Highlands and Islands.
References
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No Bibliography entries for this designation
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