Monument record 14575 - Gearrannan, Carloway, Lewis

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Grid reference NB 19226 44154 (point)
Map sheet NB14SE
Island Lewis
Parish UIG, Western Isles

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NB 1923 4415 15 metres O.D.
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Built against a west facing shear bedrock face this D-shaped platform is levelled and has a stone lip or wall surrounding it. Measuring 11.0 metres by 7.0 metres a turf bank subdivides the interior. This platform may represent an enclosed area of cultivation used as a vegetable garden, or may be the remains of an older structure related to previous occupation of the site.
Field walking on 28/6/94

Burgess 1995, 54.


Christopher Burgess, 1995, Garenin Landscape Survey: interim report 1a 1994-1995 (Unpublished document). SWE41175.

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  • --- Unpublished document: Christopher Burgess. 1995. Garenin Landscape Survey: interim report 1a 1994-1995.

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Jan 9 2008 11:48AM

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