Monument record 9941 - VN56 North Vatersay

Summary

Shelter, shieling

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Grid reference NL 62240 96052 (point)
Map sheet NL69NW
Island Vatersay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

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VN56 (NL622960) Well-embedded circular stone setting 6.5 m diam. Immediately alongside rock face. There are suggestions of a small oblong setting inside the ring. Possible an unusually large shelter type A but as likely to be an overgrown circular hut, possible prehistoric.

Brannigan and Foster 2000, 43


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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Mar 20 2003 2:20PM

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