View SW of Carn Liath (Balgown) Neolithic chambered tomb, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, showing a modern field wall built over one of the capstones.
View SW of Carn Liath (Balgown) Neolithic chambered tomb, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, showing remains of the Hebridean square cairn with a modern drystone wall incorporating a capstone. The broken capstone sitting on two upright slabs formed part of the burial chamber or entrance passage which came in from the S (L) where there may have been a forecourt & facade. The rear upright is one of the peristalith stones retaining the W side of the cairn. The retaining slabs formed projections or horns at each corner. The cairn has been much robbed for crofts & modern field walls. The tomb sits on the crest of a long ridge running NW-SE which once separated (the now drained) Loch Chaluim Chille from the W coast of Trotternish. The field wall continues to the coast with the Vaternish peninsula to the rear.
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Location: Carn Liath Chambered Cairn, Balgown, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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