Monument record 1146 - PORT NAN LONG, NORTH UIST

NF87NE 6 899 782.

(Area : NF 900 784) Several ruined cists have been found by Beveridge on the sandy slope at Rudha na Traghad, a little to the east of Port nan Long. One contained an inverted urn with evidence of a cremated burial. The vessel had a crudely incised ornamental design on its flat base and nearby was a circular flat stone which would fit exactly the inverted mouth.
The quantity of potsherds over the area suggested a kiln, and in addition iron slag and red ashes were found, as if from a furnace.
Other finds included bone pins, bronze brooches, two pieces of flint, boat rivets of Viking type etc., and part of a small clay crucible. (E Beveridge 1911)
The finds are in the NMAS.
E Beveridge 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1912; 1922; 1948.

Nothing was seen of the cists, but there is an extensive spread of midden material and fragmentary building remains in the area of open dune centred at NF 8992 7820.
Visited by OS (J T T) 26 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 227, 268 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

PSAS, 1911-12, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 327-8, 330 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9079.

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

PSAS, 1945-6, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 153 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8977.

PSAS, 1964-6, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 334 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8943.

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

PSAS, 1976-7, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 385 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8441.

J Barber, 1984g, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 44 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13437.

Centre for Field Archaeology, 2005, Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, North Uist (Bibliographic reference). SWE41070.