Monument record 1156 - TRAIGH UDAL, NORTH UIST

Summary

Midden

Location

Grid reference NF 83300 78700 (point)
Map sheet NF87NW
Island North Uist
Parish NORTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NF87NW 15 833 787.

(Area: NF 833 787) Scanty kitchen-midden remains, including pottery, shells, bones and a single flint, have been found on both sides of the rough track leading to the old burying ground (NF87NW 16) on the east edge of Ard a' Bhorain [OS name: Aird a' Mhorain].
E Beveridge 1911.

No trace of any kitchen middens could be found in this area.
Visited by OS (R D) 23 June 1965.

NF 8348 7871. Miss M Harman reports midden material, including sherds of pottery by the track to the cemetery at NF 836 787.
Information from M Harman to Ordnance Survey, 12 April 1978.

Miss Harman donated sherds of iron age pottery from this and a number of other sites on North Uist to NMAS.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1979.


Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 238 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

PSAS, 1976-7, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 385, no. 16 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8441.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Erskine Beveridge. 1911. North Uist: its archaeology and topography. 238.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1976-7. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 108. 384-389. 385, no. 16.

Finds (2)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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