Barpa nam Feannag

Barpa nam Feannag , ominously named ‘Cairn of the Hooded Crows’, is less accessible than Barpa Langais and less well-known. Beveridge describes it as ‘a long irregular mound of loose stones, lying approximately east and west’. Its outline was still preserved and recognisable to him. He noted that this barp was higher and wider at the east end, suggesting to him that there may well have once been a chamber there, because of a ‘large flat stone at the exterior base’ and a large rectangular opening, a sign of a possible entrance passage. He also recorded that the surface of the ground was excessively ‘pitted by many slight hollows’, The regularity, size and shape of these hollows suggests the original Neolithic structure, although he noted that none of the ‘upright boundary slabs’ so characteristic of such cairns remained.

Chan eil Barpa nam Feannag cho furasta ruighinn no cho aithnichte ri Barpa Langais. Bha Beveridge ga choltachadh ri càrn fada de chlachan sgaipte a’ ruith bho Ear gu Iar. Thug e ‘n aire gu robh am barpa seo nas àirde ‘s nas leatha aig a cheann an ear, a’ sealltain gun robh sèomar ann uaireagainn air sàlaibh gun robh leac air an starsaich agus fuasgladh ceart-chearnach coltach ri doras air. Sgrìobh e cuideachd gun robh an talamh làn lagan beaga agus mi-chòmhnard. Tha cumadh agus meudachd nan lagan seo ag innse gur ann bho Linn Nuadh na Cloiche a bha an togalach bho thùs, ged nach eil gin dhan na leacan dìreach dhan gharradh-chrìch air fhàgail.