Monument record 8896 - PY88 PABBAY
Summary
Location
Grid reference | NL 59576 87755 (point) |
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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)
- --- SWE41033 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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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Mar 30 2001 12:00AM