Monument record 892 - CATTLEFOLD, VALLAY, NORTH UIST

NF77NE 7 centred
77 76.

Near the south shore of vallay there is a large cattle-fold where drifting sand occasionally reveals slight traces of at least three buildings, together with layers of peat ashes and kitchen-midden remains. The finds include a fine bone weaving-comb and bone pins, needles and borers, and pointed tines and antlers, bronze pins, needle and brooch fastening, Viking-type iron rivets and lumps of slag, hammerstones, whorls and pottery fragments. (E Beveridge 1911)
Finds in NMAS.
E Beveridge 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1912; 1922; 1930; 1931; 1934; 1935

This site could not be located.
Visited by OS (J T T) 22 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 231-2 illusts. (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

PSAS, 1911-12, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 336-7 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9079.

PSAS, 1921-2, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 13-14 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9178.

PSAS, 1929-30, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 215 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10344.

PSAS, 1930-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 256 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9072.

PSAS, 1933-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 11 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7836.

PSAS, 1934-5, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 21 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10244.

S Grieg, 1940, Viking Antiquities in Scotland, 145-6 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2901.

T Fanning, 1983, Some aspects of the bronze ringed pin in Scotland, 335, No. 11 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2007.