Monument record 8602 - Heishival Beag

Summary

Stone outbuilding/barn

Location

Grid reference NL 64279 95867 (point)
Map sheet NL69NW
Island Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

31: Heishival Beag (VN143)
stone-walled building 8 x 4.5m, door in centre of SE wall, with a 2m square annexe on the NW
Brannigan & Grattan, 1998, 40

VN143 (NL644948*) Adjacent to VN142. A thick-walled, one-roomed building, 8 x 4.5 m, with a door in the centre of the southeast wall. A 2 m square annexe is built on to the north wall.
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 NL64359583. At six figures this should be NL644958. RCB 18/04/03


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.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Keith Branigan & John Grattan. 1998. Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay. 1 & 2.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster. 2000. From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles .... SEARCH vol 5.

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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Nov 13 2000 12:00AM

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