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Latitude: 57.5979 / 57°35'52"N
Longitude: -7.2973 / 7°17'50"W
OS Eastings: 83660
OS Northings: 868794
OS Grid: NF836687
Mapcode National: GBR 88CM.Y3T
Mapcode Global: WGW3B.W987
Entry Name: Airigh nan Seilicheag,chambered cairn 1300m SSE of Marrogh
Scheduled Date: 9 December 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5246
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: North Uist
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Beinn na Foghla agus Uibhist a Tuath
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument consists of the remains of a prehistoric chambered burial cairn. The cairn is situated towards the SE end of a spur on the W side of Loch Scadavay. It is elongated WNW to ESE, and has been over 30m long, although much of the cairn material from the ESE end has been robbed to build shielings nearby.
At the W end, which reaches over 2m in height, a passage leads into an iregularly rectilinear chamber 4.1m by 3.6m.
The area to be scheduled is rectangular, 100m WNW-ESE by 60m transversely, to include the cairn and an area around it in which evidence for its former extent, construction and use may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for the evidence it displays of variety in the funerary traditions of the Neolithic, being a rare long cairn in an area rich in round cairns. It may have undisturbed chamber deposits, which, together with the soil underlying the cairn, would upon excavation furnish important evidence for Neolithic funerary practices and contemporary land-use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NF 86 NW 8.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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