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Sgailler Mhor, Uig, Lewis

Cairn (modern)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sgailler Mhor, Uig, Lewis as Cairn (modern). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
A Neolithic chambered cairn; dates to the late 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE. It is significant as part of a broader pattern of megalithic tomb construction in the Western Isles, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation in prehistoric Scotland.

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