Monument record 956 - BALELONE, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 28 719 741.

Varlish Point (NF 719741) is listed among a number of sand-dune sites in North Uist from which sherds of pottery were donated to NMAS by Miss M Harman.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1978.

Sampling of the midden at Balelone, North Uist was undertaken in response to threat by coastal erosion. The extent and stratigraphy of the midden were investigated and recorded. The site is composed of a mixture of humic occupation deposits and agricultural horizons. Pottery found from levels throughout the site seem to confirm the expected Iron Age date. In conjunction with this work the soils of the surrounding area were mapped to place the archaeological evidence in the perspective of the changing machair landscape. Pollen samples were taken from nearby peat deposits to give a vegetation history for the site and the surrounding area.
M Brooks and P Strong 1983.

PSAS, 1975-6, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 333, no. 16 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9731.

M and P Brooks and Strong, 1983, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 40 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13164.

SAIR, 2003, Bronze Age Farms & Iron Age Farm Mounds of the Outer Hebrides (Monograph). SWE41290.