Monument record 907 - FOSHIGARY, NORTH UIST

NF77NW 5 7424 7638.

(NF 7424 7638) (Visible on RAF air photographs 540/509 pt II 4003-4: flown 23 May 1951). The group of round houses at Foshigarry has in
part been washed away by the sea and is partly beneath the ruins of a recent village. Excavated by Beveridge between 1914 and 1919.
Structure 'A' is an aisled round-house: 'B' to 'H' are of varying dates, overlaid by recent houses (to which belonged the hut 'G' containing a kiln, and also the kiln at the SE end of 'H').
The house 'F' and the souterrain 'H' formed the earliest part of the complex. Little survives above floor-level of the two round-houses 'B' and 'C'. Finds included objects of stone, bone, cetacean bone, deerhorn, pottery etc: most are in the NMAS.
E Beveridge and J G Callender 1931; L Scott 1948.

The round-house 'A', at NF 7427 7633, has been further eroded by the sea. All that remains is an angle of pier and wall and a fragment of a second pier. There are no surveyable remains of features 'B' to 'H' but they can be sited to NF 7425 7635, in an area of disturbed ground with fragmentary building remains. Pottery, dated to the 4th century by Hunt, of Trinity College, Dublin, was found on the beach near these sites by Lady Granville in 1964 and is still in her possession.
Visited by OS (J T T) 19 June 1965; Information from Lady Granville, North Uist to OS.

Bone dice found in site C; RMS GNA 149. Numbered 3, 6, 4, 5. Dots enclosed by two, in one case three, concentric circles. 33 x 19mm.
D V Clarke 1970; E W MacKie 1971.

This site is being rapidly eroded. Another decade may see its total destruction.
MML 1.1.2002

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, xlii (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

E and J G Beveridge and Callen, 1930-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 317 plans, illusts (Bibliographic reference). SWE1107.

V G Childe, 1935a, The Prehistory of Scotland, 218, 219, 220, 226, 240, 243, 258 (Bibliographic reference). SWE790.

L Scott, 1948, Proc Prehist Soc, 74-5 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE6434.

D V Clarke, 1970a, Proc Prehist Soc, 230, No. 5 (Bibliographic reference). SWE1063.

E W MacKie, 1971a, Glasgow Archaeol J, 70 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4650.

M Macgregor, 1976, Early Celtic Art in North Britain, 156, No. 332 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4422.

A Lane, 1987, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 55, 56 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3842.

Y Hallen, 1994, Proc Soc Antiq Scot (Bibliographic reference). SWE34825.