Monument record 1333 - Rudh 'an Teampull, NORTHTON, HARRIS

Summary

Settlement remains, including human burials, structures

Location

Grid reference NF 97000 91400 (point)
Map sheet NF99SE
Island Harris
Parish HARRIS, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (4)

Full Description

NF99SE 4 970 914.

(Area NF 970 915) Evidence of settlement is apparent among the sandhills on the neck of the Rudh 'an Teampull promontory to the N of the church An Teampull (NF99SE 6), the whole area being littered with shells, unornamented hand-made pottery and occasional animal bones. The area contains a grave (5ft 2ins x 1ft 6ins) formed by stone slabs set on edge, within which were found a few skeletal remains. Circular heaps of stones (12ft diameter x 1ft high) resembling cairns; a group of structures consisting of a circular setting of stones (9ft diameter), like a hut circle; a circular ring of stones (4ft 3ins diameter) with an inch-thick dark layer at foundation level; and another circular ring containing only clean sand. On the edge of a sandhill area (34 x 13ft) with rounded corners outside the S corner of which is blackened sand indicating a fire-place.
RCAHMS 1928.

Little is now to be seen in this area of dunes, centred at NF 9700 9144, except a few small mounds, resembling clearance heaps, in a hollow, and what is probably the 'grave' described by the Commission. This latter, at NF 9697 9145, is defined by eleven small stones on edge, and is oriented N-S. There is no sign of skeletal remains and the setting bears little resemblance to a cist or later grave.
There are traces of cultivation both within and with- out the wall which spans the headland to the S, but this is probably fairly recent. (See NF99SE 6 for possible association with chapel and broch site)
Visited by OS (A A) 3 July 1969.


RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 41, No. 128 fig. 97 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

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  • --- Bibliographic reference: RCAHMS. 1928. The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. 41, No. 128 fig. 97.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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