Monument record 14462 - Kildonan, South Uist

Summary

Site

Location

Grid reference NF 72715 28925 (point)
Map sheet NF72NW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

25. Kildonan, South Uist. NF 7271 2892
c.7m diameter, 0.2m depth of deposits. Surveyed June 1994. Land in cultivation.
Scarce Iron Age pottery, shell and bone. Pottery friable and coarse but small sherd.

Parker Pearson and Sharples

NF 7271 2892 The occupation deposits at this location lay immediately behind a natural shell sand mound. A single trench suggested that the activity dates to the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age, and four distinct occupation layers were noted.
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Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document).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  • --- Unpublished document: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist.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 14 2007 9:35AM

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