Monument record 8896 - PY88 PABBAY

Summary

Complex of shelters and enclosure

Location

Grid reference NL 59576 87755 (point)
Map sheet NL58NE
Island Pabbay, Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

PY88 (NL59578775) Complex of shelters and enclosure.
Location: On stepped bench on slope down to valley at Allanish with dyke to Sloc Glansich steeply to the south.
Description: Long thin oval enclosure marked by spaced set stones butted to rock crag face. Also butted to crag face are three single-cell shelters spaced apart within the enclosure.
Note: Covered by heather.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 88

PY88a (NL59578775) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Subrectangular, 3 x 2 m, single cell of piled stones with entrance to north.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 88

PY88b (NL59578775) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Subrectangular, 3 x 2 m, single cell of piled stones using convenient fallen bouders in the construction.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 88

PY88c (NL59578775) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Subrectangular, 2.5 x 1.5 m, single cell of piled stone.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 88

PY88d (NL59578775) Enclosure.
Location: As above.
Description: Elongated arc of set stones, 30 x 8 m, forms enclosure butted to crag rock face.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 88


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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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Mar 30 2001 12:00AM

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