Monument record 9407 - MY214 MINGULAY

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Peat dryer

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Grid reference NL 55276 82844 (point)
Map sheet NL58SE
Island Mingulay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

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MY214 (NL55278284) Peat dryer.
Location: Edge of hill-top plateau.
Description: Probably a rectangular, 4.5 x 4.3 m, mound with a single cell of stone around the edges. Now severely deflated and partly dissolved into pools of standing water. What may have been the original stone facade at the southern end is still intact.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 111


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

Apr 26 2001 12:00AM

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