Barpa Langass

The cairn Barpa Langass (also Barpa Langais ) is located on the hill Ben Langass on the south side of A867 at Clachan on the Hebridean island of North Uist.

He is not to be confused with Dun Bharpa, also a very large cairn on the Outer Hebridean island of Barra.

The round cairn is 25 m in diameter and four feet high. Its low curbs are largely intact, particularly on the north side. In the zerflossenen hills are on the east side, in front of the access to the chamber of a passage tomb from the Orkney - Cromarty ( OC) or Orkney - Cromarty Hebrides type, obtain the traces of a deep V -shaped atrium. The covered flat-plate transition is about four feet long. He widens before it goes into an oval chamber, which is still intact and is covered by three large plates. The chamber is not accessible.

In the north, on the slope of Mharrogh Hill, the well-preserved Cairn is Tigh Cloiche. In a round stone hill of 24 meters in diameter and more than four meters in height an accessible passage tomb is with a round chamber.

Environment

On the southwestern side of the hill is the oval stone circle Pobull Fhinn.