Monument record 14463 - Kildonan, South Uist

Summary

Midden, settlement mound

Location

Grid reference NF 72705 28955 (point)
Map sheet NF72NW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

26. Kildonan, South Uist. NF 7270 2895
c. 10m diameter, 0.5m + depth of deposits. Surveyed June 1994. Cultivated land.
Scarce Iron Age pottery, shell and bone.

Parker Pearson and Sharples

NF 7270 2895 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. The lowest deposit exposed, a thin red clay layer, appeared to be a floor layer and suggests the presence of a house. It was covered by several less diagnostic occupation soils.
Sharples 1998, 104-5


Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document).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  • --- Unpublished document: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist.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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Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Dec 14 2007 9:40AM

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