Monument record 8670 - A115 ARDVEENISH

A115 (NF713040) A prominent grassed-over mound, diam. 11.5 m and about 1 m high, on top of which is a stone and turf, well-embedded oval hut 5 x 4.5 m, with a probable door at the south-east corner. Early modern shieling hut overlying an earlier shieling?
Branigan and Foster 2000, 15

[6 fig. grid ref. only CSB 19/03/01].

This is an important multi-period settlement mound. A large, roughly circular mound of c. 13m maximum diameter, is surmounted by a later shieling. Improved soil, and lumps and bumps extend up to 10m from the mound, and the whole is surrounded by an oval enclosure wall, standing up to 0.5m high. The size and shape of the main mound strongly suggest the presence of a wheelhouse, or other substantial stone-founded roundhouse.
The location was corrected following a site visit 21 May 2001.
MML 28.5.2001

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