Find Spot record 8597 - Heishival Beag, Barra

27 Heishival Beag (VN147)
Remains of an RAF Catalina flying boat which crashed further upslope in 1944. The larger parts of the plane were brought down and left in a stream bed.
Brannigan & Grattan, 1998, 39

VN147 (NL642947*) Wreck of a Cataline flying boat which crashed on the east slope of Heishival Beg in 1944. Main parts of wreckage brought down and deposited in stream bed.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 47
*This grid reference is a misprint which puts the site in the sea. It has been wrongly rounded from the grid reference in the Coastal Assessment of NL64149576. At six figures this should be NL641956. RCB 18/04/03

NL6413 9577 to NL 6414 9576
1944 aircraft wreckage, removed from crash site. Strewn in stream bed.
Knott 2001 7-8

Keith Branigan & John Grattan, 1998, Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay (Bibliographic reference). SWE41024.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.

Carol Knott, 2001, Barra & Vatersay Survey, Western Isles (Unpublished document). SWE41119.