Monument record 3239 - ARNOL, LEWIS

NB34NW 2.00 centred on 309 488

Formerly NB34NW 3

A complex landscape of pre and post-improvement townships. At least three phases of development are disernable from the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis Ross-shire 1853, sheet 8).
The 1st phase is that of the township at the coast (see NB34NW 2.01).
The Second phase is the failed crofting township laid along a road though the middle of the improved ground. This is similar to those elsewhere on Lewis, namely Barvas, Bragar and South Shawbost.
The third phase is the linear crofting township, which is similar again to those other townships.
A possible fourth phase is apparent when the 1st edition OS 6-inch map is compared to the present OS 1:10000 map (1974). From the maps it would appear that a small shift to the SE in the linear crofting township took place, probably after the construction of the roads and the formation of the present crofting field-system.

2.01 3030 4830 Township; Pottery (Formerly NB34NW 2)
2.02 3060 4900 Township: Crofting
2.03 3110 4860 Township: Crofting
2.04 3125 4870 Structure; Enclosure
2.05 3115 4840 Enclosures
2.06 3080 4832 Buildings; Enclosures
2.07 3056 4816 Farmstead
2.08 3059 4838 Structure
2.09 3050 4827 Building
2.10 3061 4865 Building
2.11 3066 4920 Farmstead
2.12 3095 4925 Enclosures
2.13 3065 4943 Corn Mills; Enclosures
2.14 3075 4964 Buildings; Wall

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 18 February 1997.