Monument record 967 - GORTAN, SOUTH UIST

Summary

Midden, Bronze Age

Location

Grid reference NF 80400 14300 (point)
Map sheet NF81SW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NF81SW 2 804 143.

Cord decorated beaker sherds, a quartz industry, flint tools and pumice fragments have been weathered out of a midden centred 30m long and up to 0.3m thick. The focus of the midden lies immediately W and N of the exposures.
I Shepherd, A Shepherd and C Maclean 1978; I Shepherd, I Ralston and C Maclean 1979.


I, A and C Shepherd, Shepherd , 1978a, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 35 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12976.

I, I and C Shepherd, Ralston a, 1979b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 47 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13166.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: I, A and C Shepherd, Shepherd . 1978a. Discovery and Excavation, Scotland. 35. 35.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: I, I and C Shepherd, Ralston a. 1979b. Discovery and Excavation, Scotland. 47. 47.

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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