Monument record 14461 - Kildonan, South Uist

Summary

Site

Location

Grid reference NF 72725 28865 (point)
Map sheet NF72NW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

24. Kildonan, South Uist. NF 7272 2886.
c.10m diameter, 0.1m depth of deposits. Surveyed June 1993, June 1994. Land ploughed but grown over.
No pottery. Bone and shell.

Parker Pearson and Sharples

NF 727 288 Three low contiguous mounds were examined by four trenches. These indicated that the archaeological deposits in this area consisted of a thin discontinuous layer of shell midden with only the occasional bone and no diagnostic pottery.
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Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document).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  • --- Unpublished document: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist.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.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Dec 14 2007 9:29AM

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