Excavation of a cairn at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis

Abstract

A small cairn weathering out of a sand dune on Cnip (Kneep) headland by Bhaltos (Valtos) was excavated in 1976 and 1978.It proved to be a Bronze Age cairn of three periods, each associated with a burial, overlying a ploughed soil.The first burial was an inhumation in a short cist under an unusual D-shaped cairn with a well-defined kerb.This cairn was disturbed when a hole was dug through it for a small corbelled cist containing a cremation urn.Finally a kerb cairn with two concentric kerbs was built over the earlier structures.Within the central ring of the kerb cairn was an un-urned cremation burial.A short account of some other artefacts found at Cnip is included in this report.

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