Monument record 1329 - FAODHAIL AN TAOBH TUATH, HARRIS

NF99SE 1 9857 9262 and 985 925.

(Area NF 985925) Some 60 sherds of dark brown pottery (2 bearing incised decoration) were discovered in a group of sand-dunes at 30ft OD on Toe peninsula. Also found were 2 well-preserved clinch-nails and 2 pieces of sheet bronze, one pierced by a split pin type rivet.
R Crerar 1961.

There is now no sign of pottery sherds in this area of dunes, and the find spot could not be located but at NF 9857 9262 there are the slight remains of a hut circle, defined by the footings of a stone wall c. 1.8m thick, with large set stones denoting the inner and outer wall faces. The east arc has been destroyed by the sea, but it measures 7.8m internally N-S. There are traces of field walls appearing through the sand in the area.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Mr Morrison has a decorated bronze pin 'with a glass bead mounted on it' which came from this area some years ago.
Visited by OS (J M) 3 July 1969.

This pin was dated by Mr Stevenson to the 7th-8th c. AD.
Information from R B K Stevenson (NMAS)

Scraps of Iron Age pottery have been found in this vicinity by a local resident. They were submitted to the NMAS, then returned to her.
Information from J Close-Brooks, NMAS (Letter and Map) to OS 7 May 1974

Pin with insets in the head, from Northton. In private ownership.
R B K Stevenson 1955; L R Laing 1973.

NF 985925 Iron Age pottery and some unidentified sherds were found approximately 100m SW of the hut circle noted above, 60m from the sea in an area of eroding machair, 3m below the present surface.
J Wilkinson 1978.

R B K Stevenson, 1955a, Proc Prehist Soc, 286 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8343.

R Crerar, 1961a, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 33 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13536.

L R Laing, 1973b, Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 69, No. 4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3785.

J Wilkinson, 1978, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 33, no. 179 (Bibliographic reference). SWE33337.