Monument record 9769 - C11 Cueir, Barra

Summary

Blackhouses, sheep pen

Location

Grid reference NF 67446 02556 (point)
Map sheet NF60SE
Island Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

C11 (NF674025) Recent sheep pen overlying and incorporating earlier structures. Two of these are reasonably clear. A Blackhouse 12 x 5 m, with door on east side. B Blackhouse 13 m x 7 m minimum, door on north side. These two buildings are set at right angles with traces of an enclosure wall joining them. There are suggestions of further foundations beneath the sheep pen.

Brannigan and Foster 2000, 34

NB Six figure grid reference only, RCB


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

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jan 21 2003 3:56PM

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