Monument record 3136 - BARVAS, LEWIS

NB35SE 53.00 centred on 360 510

NB35SE 53.01 NB 3602 5103 Township
NB35SE 53.02 NB 3577 5200 Township (Possible)
NB35SE 53.03 NB 3597 5134 Church; School House; Buildings; Enclosures
NB35SE 53.04 NB 3550 5055 Township: Crofting
NB35SE 53.05 NB 3505 5015 Township: Crofting
NB35SE 53.06 NB 361 500 Township: Crofting
NB35SE 53.07 NB 3655 3090 Township: crofting; Corn-drying Kiln
NB35SE 53.08 NB 3601 5031 Farmstead; Structures; Enclosure
NB35SE 53.09 NB 3582 5016 Farmstead
NB35SE 53.10 NB 3635 5144 Farmstead
NB35SE 53.11 NB 3620 5186 Farmstead
NB35SE 53.12 NB 3575 5150 Building
NB35SE 53.13 NB 3554 5136 Mill
NB35SE 53.14 NB 3556 5186 Field-system
NB35SE 53.15 NB 3542 5203 Field-system
NB35SE 53.16 NB 3531 5229 Enclosure

A complex landscape of pre and post-improvement townships. At least three phases of development are decernable from the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis Ross-shire 1853, sheet 8).
The earilest settlement recorded is in the machair (see NB35SE 16). No features have been mapped by the OS.
The first mapped phase may be the relic townships which may have been scattered within the present township boundaries (see NB35SE 53.01)
This was replaced by a crofting system which has two distinct phases.
A crofting township (NB35SE 53.02) laid along three roads though the middle of the improved ground, this may have been built to replace the present crofting township but was not successful. This is similar to other townships elsewhere on Lewis, namely, Bragar and South Shawbost.
The linear crofting townships (NB35SE 53.03) which survive to the present are found next to the roads and probably replaced the pre-improvement townships (NB35SE 53.01).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 20 February 1997.