Monument record 14454 - Kildonan, South Uist
Summary
Location
Grid reference | NF 72524 28896 (point) |
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Map sheet | NF72NW |
Island | South Uist |
Parish | SOUTH UIST, Western Isles |
Map
Type and Period (1)
Full Description
17. Kildonan, South Uist. NF 7252 2889
c.10m diameter, 0.2m depth of deposits. Surveyed June 1993, June 1994. Pasture/cultivation.
Pottery scarce - Late Neo/EBA (angled incisions 1cm long, possibly from a Food Vessel), Iron fragment, pumice, shell and bone. Some of the sherds have an orange/red exterior with angled incised decoration.
Parker Pearson and Sharples
NF 7252 2889 Four test-pits suggest this mound was a focus for settlement in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age, with structural evidence and pits present. The settlement overlay soil horizons dating to the Early Bronze Age.
Sharples 1998, 104
Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41170.
Council for Scottish Archaeology, 1998, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41173.
Sources/Archives (2)
Finds (0)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Dec 12 2007 4:26PM