Monument record 8620 - Teampull, Traigh na Beirgh, Uig, Isle of Lewis

no. 18
This is the site of a large settlement mound known locally as the site of a 'Teampull'. the mound is c. 47m long, north-south, by c. 32m, by c. 3.5m high. It has gently sloping sides and a flat top with several set stones projecting through its surface. From a distance it appears clearly artificial. The modern road runs over its west shoulder. The cleares structure on the mound is partly defined by projecting orthostats on the top at the northern end of the mound. These form a curved arc of walling. If they represented a circular structure then much of its east and west circuit must have been eroded. The mound appears to represetn an accumulation of structures of unknown date and function. During the 1989 and 1992 surveys, the site appeared stable and did not show signs of active rabbit damage.
Geophysical survey of the mound produced two complementary sets of data from magnetic and resistivity survey. Resistivity in particular demonstrated the presence of at least two well-defined circular structures. Their degree of definition suggests that the structures may be well-preserved.
Armit 1992, 48

NB03NE 55 0988 3616

See also NB13NW 4 and NB03NE 56

At NB 0987 3615 are several set stones in the summit of a dune, forming no intelligible pattern, but this may be one of the other alleged hut-circles described, of which there is otherwise no trace.
Visited by the OS (RL) 28 June 1969

REPORT DATE: 29/04/2004

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NB 0988 3616 5 m OD
Settlement Mound
This site is as described by Armit (1994) and is stable, though there is some rabbit damage to the mound.
Fieldwalking 10.4.95; Armit 1994, site 18.

Burgess and Church 1996, 36-37.

Ian Armit, 1992, Archaeological Field Survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) Peninsula, Lewis (Bibliographic reference). SWE41031.

Christopher Burgess and Michael Church, 1996, Uig Landscape Survey: Interim Report 1 (Unpublished document). SWE41181.