Monument record 9965 - VN84 North Vatersay

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Kerbed cairns

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Grid reference NL 62438 95957 (point)
Map sheet NL69NW
Island Vatersay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

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VN84 (NL625959) Two adjacent grassed mounds. A is 5.9 m diam. And has a well-preserved stone kerb around half its circumference and survives to a height of 0.9 m. B is almost totally destroyed but there are traces of a kerb on the north-west, diam. 4m? Prehistoric kerbed cairns.

Brannigan and Foster 2000, 45


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 4:51PM

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