Monument record 8995 - K10 KIESSIMUL

Summary

Blackhouse

Location

Grid reference NL 6759 9856 (point)
Map sheet NL69NE
Island Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

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Carol Knott, 2001, Barra & Vatersay Survey, Western Isles (Unpublished document).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.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster. 2000. From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles .... SEARCH vol 5. 23.
  • --- Unpublished document: Carol Knott. 2001. Barra & Vatersay Survey, Western Isles.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Apr 3 2001 12:00AM

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