Building Bronze Age-style log boats using replica tools and fire has revealed “how long and how much effort” it was to make prehistoric vessels.
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If all of the outer stones were part of the cairn, there must have been large kerbs surrounding it.
Bits of chamber, fallen stones, must have been some place!
The north east, a mixture of chamber, standing and fallen stones, kerbs, cairn material and erosion.
It might seem like dry land over the fence, it isn’t, the cairn and the nearby broch appear to be in a swamp.
Looking back south west, the remains of an inner wall, the outer is amongst the ferns.
The small promontory fort looking east, the straight line in the ferns is the remains of the fort’s wall which I found by tripping over it.
Scotland’s longest chamber cairn burial site has been the scene of recent activity
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Nationally important evidence of Iron Age furnaces and tools have been discovered during the excavation of a hillfort.
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Parking is available just beyond the track to Ashbank, near the minor road that leaves the B8083. From there I walked towards Kilbride House and simply opened a gate to walk to the standing stone, slightly to the east.
Clach na h’annait means ‘Stone Of The Mother Church’ and it stands at nearly 2.4m. The stone has faired much better than the church, it has long since vanished.
An impressive stone with atmosphere added by low clouds and rain.
Visited 03/08/2023.
The south part of the cairn looking north west.
North part of the cairn looking south east.
Looking north west, the last houses of South Uist in the distance.
The possible cist cover, weather far better looking north.
Looking south to the high parts of South Uist.
Looking south, the loch is also called Altabrug.