Region : Western Isles Island : North Uist Town or village : Tigharry (Tigh a' Ghearraidh) Grid Reference : NF 749 713 Period : 4rd-3rd millennium BC Clettraval (Cleitreabhal) CHAMBERED CAIRN

A much plundered chambered cairn on South Clettraval (Cleitreabhal a Deas) hillside, on North Uist (Uibhist a Tuath). The surviving slabs of the burial chamber (in the photo) are set in overlapping pairs, so that the chamber walls look like the sections of a telescope. Some kerb-stones and some slabs of the façade are still visible. Little remains of the 29m long wedge-shaped cairn, from which the stones were stolen in ancient times. To the west of the site there are the remains of an Iron Age wheelhouse. During excavations in 1934 a lot of Neolithic and Beaker pottery was found. To the south there are a 1.5m tall standing stone and another much more ruined chambered cairn.

Other chambered cairns ------------------ Achnacree (Carn Ban) Barpa Langass Beorgs of Housetter Blackhammer Cairnholy I Cairnholy II Camster Long Camster Round Camus nan Geall Clettraval Cnoc Freiceadain North Cnoc Freiceadain South Coille na Borgie South Cuween Hill East Bennan Garrywhin (Cairn o' Get) Holm of Papa Westray North Holm of Papa Westray South Isbister (Tomb of the Eagles) Knowe of Lairo Knowe of Yarso Maes Howe Midhowe Nether Largie South Ord North Ord South Punds Water South Yarrows South Taversoe Tuick Torrylin Unival Unstan Vinquoy Wideford Hill Other sites in the Western Isles ---------------------- Achmore Barpa Langass Borvemore Callanish Callanish II Callanish III Callanish IV Callanish V Callanish VIII Clach an Trushal Clach Mhic Leòid Clettraval Dun an Sticir Dun Carloway Na Fir Bhreige Pobull Fhinn Steinacleit Unival