Site Event/Activity record ECH2681 - Late eighteenth and nineteenth century damage and repairs to the monument.

A number of events where the monument was damaged/restored during thelate eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The capstones of the main chamber had been removed before 1766, and by 1843 further damage had made it impossible to plot more than four or possibly five stones of the façade and the portal or to record the position of the cairn. The southern orthostat of the chamber was further split by fire in 1823, and by 1854 the porthole stone had been reduced to a height of a few inches. In 1877 the broken half of the port hole and the southern slab were replaced, but were back to their previous state by 1935. There had been excavations in the chamber which had bee partly filled with debris from an old cottage (replaced by Bridestones House). See CHER 154 for full details.