Monument record 8617 - Rubh an Aiseig, Fuiay

Summary

Outbuilding?, blackhouse?

Location

Grid reference NF 73725 02721 (point)
Map sheet NF70SW
Island Fuiay, Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (3)

Full Description

AF8. Rubh an Aiseig
Site Type: outbuilding?
A heavily robbed and almost entirely grassed over building 6.3 x 5m, with walls about 0.65m wide. Entrance almost certainly on south facing into small bay. It stands apart from the building at site AF9 and is much mroe reduced and embedded than those.
Brannigan & Grattan 1998, 46

AF8* (NF737027) A heavily embedded and robbed rectangular stone structure, 6.5 x 3 m, with a wall 0.65 m wide. A door must have been located in the south wall. Small blackhouse, preceding main settlement (AF9)?
Branigan and Foster 2000, 16


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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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2001 12:00AM

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