Mulchaich Chambered Cairn View all content for Mulchaich

RCAHMS say: "Alcaig Manse (A S Henshall 1963). This cairn, of uncertain type, is overgrown and considerably robbed. It is about 55 ft. diam. with a now rather intermittent peristalith of heavy boulders of which one on the SE segment has about 15 cups, one of these being 7 ins across and 2 ins deep. A massive stone, 8 ft. within the W. edge of the cairn, is 2 ft. above the cairn material and, in an excavated hollow some 8 ft to the south east of it, another stone is exposed to a depth of 2 feet. Towards the E side of the cairn, is a large, displaced slab. The presence of these stones suggests the existence of a chamber. Forty feet outside the peristalith may be a comparatively modern bank. V G Childe 1944; A A Woodham 1956 "

Posted by Hob 18th August 2005ce

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