Monument record 1128 - NEWTON, NORTH UIST

NF87NE 12 8878 7735 and 8879 7735.

(NF 8878 7735) Stone Cists (NR) Containing Human Remains found AD. 1845 OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Three stone cists were found.
Name Book 1978.

NF 887 773. A short cist containing a crouched female skeleton, a fragment of burnt bone and two small sherds comparable with 'wheel-house' pottery (Information from R J C Atkinson) was ploughed up by John Macaskill in 1955 on his land, 300 yards W of Newton House, and was examined by members of the Edinburgh University Archaeol Soc in 1957.
J V S Megaw and D D A Simpson 1963.

The short cist was sited at NF 8879 7735 (Information from Mr Donald MacAskill) but has been ploughed over.
Site surveyed at 1/2500.
No further information could be obtained about the cists found AD.1845. Visited by OS (N K B) 22 June 1965.

International Exhibition, Glas, 1888, The Book of the Bishop's Castle and handbook of the Archaological Collection, 28, No. 75 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12805.

J V S and D D A Megaw and Simp, 1960-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 62-4 plans and illusts. (Bibliographic reference). SWE5565.

J and S Close-Brooks and Maxwe, 1972-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 287 (Bibliographic reference). SWE1217.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 6, 72 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.