Site Event/Activity record EWE168 - Dalmore, Lewis

NB 214 451. Since 1979, small scale excavation has been carried out by the writers at Dalmore Bay during construction of sea defences there. To date, numerous decorated fragments of pottery, including Beaker-ware, flint & quartz barbed-&-tanged arrowheads, bone pins, quern stones, quantities of shell, animal bones, etc - one painted, have been found. The latest discovery in November 1982 is stones possibly indicating the remains of a house (Information from the Stornoway Gazette 14 Feburary 1983). G Ponting and M Ponting 1979; 1980; 1981 Excavation has continued to the sea ward of the sea wall, with numerous finds of a similar nature and a small area of prehistoric soil surface. Parts of 5 stone structures were excavated and numerous associated finds, eg over 4,000 sherds with over 25% of them decorated; a few Neolithic, one Iron Age and the rest Beaker; vast quantities of quartz with six arrowheads, four arrowhead roughouts and over thirty scrapers; flint with one arrowhead roughout, and eighteen scrapers; 'mylomite' with one spearhead, four arrowheads, four arrowhead roughouts and twenty scrapers; one broken axehead; 135 plus potboilers; twenty three plus rubbing stones; thirty six bone artefacts and a painted shaped bone object. B Ponting et al 1983; N Sharples 1983.