Monument record 14455 - Kildonan, South Uist

Summary

Settlement mound

Location

Grid reference NF 72504 28836 (point)
Map sheet NF72NW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

18. Kildonan, South Uist. NF 7250 2883
c.10m diameter, 0.5m depth of deposits. Surveyed June 1993, June 1994. Pasture/cultivation. Scarce pottery - Late Neolithic/EBA (Beaker sherd with thin incised chevrons), large piece of pumice (bone frags retained), shell and bone.
Parker Pearson and Sharples

NF 7250 2883 Four test-pits indicated a sequence of activity all belonging to the Early Bronze Age. The earliest features were two soil horizons, separated by windblown sand, with ard marks indicating cultivation and associated with Beaker pottery. Above these was a more complex sequence of layers indicating occupation associated with Food Vessel fragments.
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Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document).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)

  • --- Unpublished document: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Council for Scottish Archaeology. 1998. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Dec 12 2007 4:38PM

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