Monument record 1107 - BEINN NA COILLE, NORTH UIST

Summary

A number of sheiling huts of varying date, over the ruinous remains of a cairn

Location

Grid reference NF 83792 61524 (point)
Map sheet NF86SW
Island North Uist
Parish NORTH UIST, Western Isles

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Full Description

NF86SW 33 8376 6153.

(NF 8376 6153) Tumuli (NR) (See also NF86SW 29)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

This cairn or dun is a circular heap of stones some 43ft in diameter and 5ft high. It has been so destroyed by the construction of shielings on its summit and sides that it is impossible to determine its nature from present surface indications.
From its size it would seem to be a cairn rather than a dun.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 2 August 1915.

This feature is a natural green mound with the remains of an L-shaped building, with outer enclosing wall, on its mutilated top.
Some 10.0m to the west are two small shielings and c. 30.0m to the west of these are the remains of an old field wall running approx. N-S. Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 12 June 1965.


Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 181 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 98, No. 330 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Erskine Beveridge. 1911. North Uist: its archaeology and topography. 181.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: RCAHMS. 1928. The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. 98, No. 330.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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