Monument record 8995 - K10 KIESSIMUL
Summary
Location
Grid reference | NL 6759 9856 (point) |
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Map sheet | NL69NE |
Island | Barra |
Parish | BARRA, Western Isles |
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Full Description
K10 (NL676986) Heavily embedded and robbed thick-walled oblong building 7.5 x 5.5 m, with 0.75 m door in centre of south wall and a possible second facing it in the north wall. Three linear boundaries, one a sheep wall, run up to the building. Blackhouse?
Branigan and Foster 2000, 23
[NB 6 fig. grid ref. only, so inaccurate. CSB 3/4/01].
NL 6759 9856
Blackhouse, 2.9m x 5.3m internally, with two doorways; the best-preserved in the south-west wall at the southern end, 0.42m wide. House is clasped by 3 stone walls, to north-west, north and east; that to northwest containst a possible chamber.
Knott 2001, 30
Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ..., 23 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.
Carol Knott, 2001, Barra & Vatersay Survey, Western Isles (Unpublished document). SWE41119.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Apr 3 2001 12:00AM