Monument record 13214 - Nisabost Traigh Iar

NG09NW 18 0394 9704

NG 0394 9704 A human skull, with about 20 teeth, all 'healthy' but very worn, and a few heavily weathered bones were found in a very exposed position at the top of a cliff. The grave may contain the remainder of the skeleton and is roughly outlined by several stones lying partly exposed in the sand and turf. The whole grave may have slipped down the eroding face. The grave and human remains are about 2m below the present turf level, and about 0.5m above the underlying till which forms a shelf some 3m wide, beyond which is a 10m drop to the sea.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 2000

NG 039 970 A human cranium was reported as eroding out of a cliff section in the vicinity of Macleod's Stone (NMRS NG 09 NW 4). A calvarium and part of the maxilla and upper teeth were excavated from a slump or eroded windblown sand. The remains had fallen from the eroding section above the site and come to rest on a terrace below. A small trench was excavated around the remains, but no further bone was found. A small scatter of large stones in the vicinity of the remains may once have been associated with them, although it was clear that the remainder of the skeleton and any archaeological feature had probably eroded into the sea below. (GUARD 961).
Sponsor:
Historic Scotland
R Barrowman 2001, 101

REPORT DATE: 20/07/2004

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 2001, Discovery and Escavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41185.