This was one of those 'took five minutes to find someone to ask for directions but half an hour to get those directions' sites. A lovely local farmer had me talking about things I can not remember, but a chat in the sun is always welcome.
When I got to the tomb it was very badly overgrown, but the stones looked so impressive I just had to do something I rarely do - I cleared the site of gorse bushes and brambles. WOW! What incredible stones make up this tomb. There is a sill stone in situ and only the enormous sides of the gallery remain.
The sill may mark a portico, leading into a 1.4m wide gallery that is 1.4m tall and 4m long. Each wall is represented by two huge slabs equally sized slabs. The construction of this tomb seems to have been very careful.
On each side there are traces of the double walling in the form of very thin slabs that are only half the height of the gallery walls. Quite a lot of the cairn is still there underneath the gorse bushes that I didn't clear.
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