<< Our Photo Pages >> Steinacleit - Chambered Tomb in Scotland in Isle of Lewis
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: SteinacleitCountry: Scotland County: Isle of Lewis Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Stornoway Nearest Village: Shader
Map Ref: NB39635408 Landranger Map Number: 8
Latitude: 58.397374N Longitude: 6.457951W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Geraint1 visited on 10th Jul 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 The cairn looks as though it would have been chambered, with one, or possibly more, peripheral chambers added.
What now look like 4 or 5 stones of a circle, to me, look more like the surrounding kirb stones like those at the Clava cairns.
Although this site is very ruinous, I think, with a little imagination, this would have been a Clava type chambered burial cairn.
The surrounding circle of stones, which is a very big diameter (at a wild guess about 30m+ diameter) looks like an enormous ring cairn with the burial cairn nestled up against it.
It has been speculated that this was a settlement prior to have the burial cairn. In the neolithic/early bronze age, it wasn't, apparently, unusual for a domestic hut to become the burial cairn for the passed occupant. If this was the case here it could explain the position of the cairn within the large ring of stones that could have been the perimeter of the settlement.
Interesting, thought provoking site.
Swinside visited on 1st Jul 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Outer parts of the site reveal the visible, but broken, remnants of a stone circle of around 30 feet in diameter.
BolshieBoris visited on 1st Jul 2004 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
mark_a visited September 2020
Humbucker rrmoser SandyG PAB DrewParsons have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.67 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 3.33
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