Monument record 8828 - PY17 PABBAY

Summary

Shieling and clearance carin complex

Location

Grid reference NL 60185 88105 (point)
Map sheet NL68NW
Island Pabbay, Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

PY17 (NL60188810) Shieling complex.
Location: Lower coastal hill-slope shelf.
Description: Group of shelters and cairns set within the perimeter of a sub-rectangular enclosure, 55 x 25 m, marked by piled, much-disarranged stone. All the components of the group are in a degraded state with their structural stonework displaced and in places absent.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 84

PY17a (NL60188810) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Circular stone ring, 5 m diam., greatly disturbed. May actually be a twin cell structure but stonework is indistinct.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 84

PY17b (NL60188810) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Rectangular single cell, 8 x 5 m, with possible internal sructures.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 84

PY17c (NL60188810) Cairn (clearance)
Location: As above.
Description: 2 m diam. cluster of stones.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 84

PY17d (NL60188810) Cairn (clearance)
Location: As above.
Description: Square pile of stones.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 84

PY17e (NL60188810) Enclosure.
Location: As above.
Description: Indistinct subrectangular enclosure, c. 55 x 25 m, of piled and set stone with many gaps.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 84


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

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- 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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Record last edited

Mar 28 2001 12:00AM

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