Monument record 8678 - A123 ARDVEENISH

A123 (NF708045) Oblong stone building 6.4 x 5.2 m, 1.15 m door towards the north-west corner, and wall standing to a maximum height of 0.75 m. The robbed remains of a totally embedded (turf-walled?) structure at least 5 x 3.5 m is immediately to the east, and to south is a turf-walled enclosure 5 x 4 m, butted to the rear wall of the main building. North of the building is a mound about 8 m diam. and 0.8 m high with traces of low embankment along its north edge, and an exposed shell midden at its eastern edge. Blackhouse and garden plot; earlier building, and a possibly prehistoric occupation site.
Branigan and Foster 2000, 16.

[NB 6 fig. grid ref. only CSB 20/03/01].

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