Monument record 8607 - Uidh, Barra

38: Uidh (VN136)
a right-angled stone-faced earth bank set into a corner of a large rock formation, forming a shelter or hut 2.7m square.
Outside, a semi-circular setting of stones set on edge enclose an area about 5.2 x 4.5m.
Brannigan & Grattan 1998, 40


This site is also entered under SMR no. 2049, which cannot be deleted (also NMRS entry: NMRS no. 85168) but is entered with a misprinted grid reference from an earlier report, which puts it in the middle of the sea. The grid reference should be: NL65409563 RCB 18/04/03. The following information is taken from that record:


NL69NW 123 6450 9571

VN 136: (NB: grid reference at NL 6450 9571 falls in the sea ?)
Hut and pen. Thick-walled hut, 3.5m square, built against a 4m high rock face and surrounded by a keb of large upright blocks, forming an arc 6.5 x 5.3m.
NMRS MS/595/11, 6

VN136 (NL645957*) Hut and pen. Thick-walled hut, 3.5 m square built against a 4 m high rock face and surrounded by a kerb of large upright blocks, forming an arc 6.5 x 5.3 m.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 47
*This is a misprint as it puts the site in the middle of the sea - should be NL654957. The grid reference is correct in the Coastal Survey, where it is recorded as site 38. UIDH (VN136) NL65409563. 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.