Barpa Charavat is another example of a ‘Long Cairn’, 50m in length, with some evidence remaining of a wide, ‘horned’ entrance at the east end. Beveridge noted that it was ‘greatly dilapidated’ at this end, since it had been used both as a quarry by…
Barpa Langais is the best preserved and largest of the Neolithic, chambered, burial cairns on North Uist. Its massive size suggests, according to Erskine Beveridge, that it was the burial place of some great chief and intended as both a tomb and a…
