Barpa Charabhat

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 local residents, and for the building of the several shielings and enclosures. Originally this must have been a significant landmark since, at the narrower west end, in Beveridge’s time, it was ‘standing to a height of 10 feet’.

‘S e eisimpleir eile de Chàrn fada a th’ ann am Barpa Charabhat, coagad meatair de dh’fhaid, far am faic thu doras leathainn, coltach ri adhaircean aig a cheann an Ear. Sgrìobh Beveridge gu robh e air a dhol bhuaithe aig a cheann seo bhon a bha daoine às a choimhearsnachd a’ tarraing às airson àirighean agus cuidheachan a thogail. Aig an àm feumaidh gur e comharra-stìuiridh chudromach a bha seo bhon a bha e cho àrd ri deich troighean aig a cheann an Iar.