Monument record 8959 - S34 SKALLARY

Summary

Farmstead

Location

Grid reference NL 69724 99758 (point)
Map sheet NL69NE
Island Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (3)

Full Description

S34 (NL697997) Complex of three stone buildings. A house 12.5 x 6 m has a central door, no internal partitions, but a fireplace and chimney in one end wall. Behind the house stands a drying shed 9 x 6.3 m with a platform and diagonal flue at one end. Built against the shed is a byre 8.3 x 4 m with a drainage gully running out through the door, which is in an end wall. Immediately alongside is a stream, and on the far side is a walled cultivation area 23 x 7 m.
Branigan and Foster 2000, 21.


Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ..., 21 (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. 21.

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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Apr 2 2001 12:00AM

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