Monument record 961 - BALELONE, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 7 7195 7408.

(NF 7197 7407) Erd Houses (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

At Kilpheder, coastal erosion has revealed thin layers of kitchen-midden and traces of a slight single wall, which curves in a northerly direction for several yards and seems to represent part of the underground linings of one of the earth-houses indicated by the OS. Finds from the former site include potsherds, hammer-stones, iron slag and a single cut-marked bone.
A potsherd and an oval pebble fragment are in the NMAS.
E Beveridge 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1916 and 1922.

At NF 7195 7408 a dune has been eroded by the sea, exposing a sand face c. 30.0m long. Midden material, a burnt layer about 1 1/2inches thick and building remains (probably of an earth-house) are exposed in the face. See plan and section There are insufficient remains to justify survey action.
The second earth-house was not located.
Visited by OS (J T T) 16 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 116 & fn (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

PSAS, 1915-16, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 12 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9903.

PSAS, 1921-2, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9178.

A Young, 1952-3, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 94-5 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8433.