Site Event/Activity record EWE102 - Cnip Wheelhouse Excavations
Location
Location | |
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Grid reference | NB 09776 36591 (point) |
Map sheet | NB03NE |
Island | Lewis |
Parish | UIG, Western Isles |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Dept. of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Date
Not recorded.
Description
The site of two adjoining wheelhouses and later cellular and linear structures was excavated here in 1988. The lower wheelhouse levels of Wheelhouse 1 were not excavated and these, along with the superstructure of Wheelhouse 1 remain intact below the present ground surface. No trace of this site was visible from the surface and its discovery was possible due to the appearance of stonework in the eroding dune face. This part of Cnip beach has since been stabilised by the construction of a sea wall.
Armit 1992, 43
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SWE41141 Monograph: Ian Armit. 2006. Anatomy of an Iron Age Roundhouse.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- 58 KNEEP, LEWIS (Monument)
Record last edited
Apr 11 2007 2:59PM