Monument record 8914 - PY106 PABBAY

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Stone setting

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Grid reference NL 60476 87014 (point)
Map sheet NL68NW
Island Pabbay, Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

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PY106 (NL60478701) Boat-shaped stone setting.
Location: Rocky plateau on lower slopes.
Description: Pointed ovoid slightly mounded, 3.5 x 1.3 m, with edging stones. Mass of stone at prow-pointed end similar to PY30.
Note: Subject to severe ersion that may have produced the apparent boat shape by the removal of material and resultant stone displacement.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 89


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

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  • --- 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 30 2001 12:00AM

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