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Steinacleit
Date Added: 10th Jul 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Steinacleit submitted by DrewParsons on 6th Nov 2008. Steinacleit with a broch just visible on the islet in the lake in the background.
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Log Text: 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.