Monument record 1363 - NISABOST, HARRIS

NG09NW 8 0419 9679.

(NG 0419 9679) Erd House (NR) (Centred NG 042 967) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

This earth-house was excavated by Thomas c. 1860. The floor was as much as 12' below the surface of the sandhill in which it was buried. The plan shows an irregular pear-shaped chamber leading into two beehive chambers. The walls in some places were still 6' high. Finds included a quernstone, sherds of craggans and animal bones (F W L Thomas 1962).
By 1914, only a heap of stones on the surface of a sandhill indicated the position of the earth-house, having more the appearance of a cairn (diameter 50', height 16').
A large mound of stones is situated c. 25 yards W of the earth-house, with a number of small heaps of stones, probably the apices of cairns, at a lower level to the E (RCAHMS 1928).
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914; F W L Thomas 1862.

No trace remains of this souterrain, in an area of sand dunes, nor of the alleged 'Tumuli', although there are vague walls, and possibly buildings of indeterminate date and type in the area centred NG 044 968. Visited by OS (N K B) 29 June 1969.

F W L Thomas, 1857-60b, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 140-1 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE7726.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 45, No. 149 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.