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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clach An Teampuill (Taransay) Alternative Name: Clach An Teampaill, Stone of the ChurchCountry: Scotland County: Isle of Harris Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Map Ref: NB01280077
Latitude: 57.895977N Longitude: 7.043454W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Clach an Teampuill is a rough four-sided pillar stone, 5ft 9ins high, bearing an incised Latin cross on its western face (RCAHMS 1928). Thomas states that although there was no tradition of a church at Uidh he had no doubt that there was one there formerly. A circular bronze brooch, 3ins in diameter, found at Uidh, is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
There is no trace of a chapel at the site shown on the OS 6"map, (1903), an unlikely situation on a slope, but immediately to the east of the stone there is a small platform oriented E-W which could be the footings of a building but it is impossible to say if it is the chapel.
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