Monument record 13578 - CILLE PHEADAIR, South Uist

NF71NW 26 c.740 197

NF 740 197 Cille Pheadair. MoLRS site. Identified from cartographic evidence as an area of possible medieval to post-medieval settlement. Nine trenches were excavated to assess the nature of survival and date the settlement.
Trench 2 revealed a rubble drain alongside a local route-way. Trench 4 revealed burnt material, possibly a denuded midden. Trench 8 contained two structural walls and a possible cobbled surface. The walls were constructed of two lines of parallel stones, with a stone and pebble infill. Trench 9 located two cobbled surfaces at either end of the trench, surrounding a beaten earth floor contained in peat-ash and sandy lenses, probably a series of floor surfaces. Trenches 2, 6, 8 and 9 produced a range of 19th/20th-century domestic refuse and no earlier finds. All finds are likely to relate to recent crofting activity rather than earlier phases of settlement.
Sponsors: Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Bournemouth and Southampton, King Alfred's College.
J A Raven 2003

REPORT DATE: 21/02/2005