Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project – Tiree Mounds Geophysical and field surveys Darko Maričević, University of Reading

NL 9410 4085 Balephuil Bay
Megalithic tomb situated on the eastern slopes of Beinn Ceann A’Mhara, overlooking the bay to the SE and the expanse of machair and Loch a’ Phuil to the E. The tomb can be described as an earth-fast dolmen, constructed by suspending a c.2 x 2 m granite capstone on top of a granite side slab, with the natural gneiss outcrop serving as the opposite side slab. The space between the back of the capstone and inward-sloping bedrock was filled with a series of wedged-in beach pebbles, which additionally prove the artificial origin of the monument. The interior is filled with windblown sand, which also covers the back of the capstone. The granite megaliths (glacial erratics) were probably brought to Tiree from Mull or Rum.

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, 51–2.