Monument record 1167 - MACHAIR LEATHANN, NORTH UIST

NF87NW 5 8011 7533

(NF 8013 7559) An aisled round-house, partly excavated by Beveridge, was found in one of the largest of the many grass-covered hillocks of blown sand on Machair Leathann. It is not quite circular and is abnormally large, requiring 14 pieces to support the roof (L Scott 1948).
Finds included hammerstones, slag, cetacean bone and part of an antler, a bronze pin, a bone object and what appears to be an upper quern stone marked by a rude Latin cross. Kitchen midden remains, which included ashes, shells, potsherds etc, were generally scarce (E Beveridge 1911). The finds are in the NMAS.
(Position of round-house plotted on OS 6'map of the Hebrides, North Uist &c Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1881) sheet No. xxx, annotated by J G Callender in 1923, following information from E Beveridge. Map now in NMRS)
E Beveridge 1911; L Scott 1948; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1912

The aisled round-house was filled in by the Air Ministry, c. 1960, but the site of it can still be traced by a considerable scatter of midden material at NF 8019 7571.
Site supplied at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 20 June 1965

Excavated by Atkinson 1956 (Unpublished)

Excavations and report (completed by E Campbell) by Prof. Atkinson (in 1957) locates this aisled round house at NF 8011 7533.
E Campbell, NMRS MS/855, c1988

This is Atkinson's 'site B' which was 80m NNE of A. It has therefore been transposed to NF8017 7539, and SMR no. 2159 (site A) has been moved to NF 8011 7533. MML 31.1.2000

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 121 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

PSAS, 1911-12, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 330-2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9079.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 89, No. 272 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

L Scott, 1948, Proc Prehist Soc, 71-2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6434.

E Campbell, 1991, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 117-73 (Bibliographic reference). SWE24814.

Y Hallen, 1994, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 190 (Bibliographic reference). SWE34825.