Monument record 13933 - Allt Easdail, Beinn Tangabhal, Barra

NL 6446 9779
Trackway and relict walling. A length of track with a bridge and sections of stone walling were identified crossing the survey corridor. This appears to be a continuation of trackway 30 excavated in Trench 1 (Branigan & Foster 1995, 96-70) leading from the Allt Chrisal settlement twoards Nask, and attributed to the 18thC. The well-defined orthostatically-set boulder face of a relict wall appears from the west and crosses a seasonal streambed (which runs to the west of the main stream) forming a bridge or causeway at NL 6446 9779. After a 2m gap for the bridge, the wall turns north in a right-angle and then northeast, following the east side lineof the stream bed. It is built of distinct, well-shaped boulders with the flat boulder face benerally uphill. The wall turns sharply uphilil at NL 6454 9783, ending with a poorer section of wall at a bedrock outcrop. It passes within 6.5m of pole 13, and has a 2.5m wide breach where it has been previously damaged by a tracked vehicle accessing the pole. The walling possibly forms a large enclosure against the outcropping rock, or may represent part of a head dyke system separating hill grazing from cultivated land below, where traces of rigs survive.
Knott 2001, 12

K. Brannigan & P. Foster, 1995, Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval from the end of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commissio (Bibliographic reference). SWE33223.

Carol Knott, 2001, Barra & Vatersay Survey, Western Isles (Unpublished document). SWE41119.