Monument record MWE150029 - Vatersay

Demolished house with associated access track and other building platforms.
The house comprises of a pile of stone and rubble, with remnants of scattered of domestic objects. 13 x 8 m across. Access track runs for 30 m from north-east corner of demolished building to the existing road. The drive is 1.8 m wide, and built up to a height of 0.7 m. Cobbles and boulders visible on the surface. There is a mound of earth, about 1 m high, immediately to the north-west, which is likely to be earth excavated as the drive was made.
Concrete platform, 12 x 5 m across. A channel runs along the centre of the platform at one end, suggesting that it might have been the base for a byre. The concrete overlies a low platform of stones, constructed of rounded boulders, which was just visible through dense vegetation around the north-west and south-west edges of the concrete. The stone platform is approximately 25 m in length.


This was a 2 bay, central doorway ,one & half storey cottage with pitched roof. Walls comprised of roughly coarsed rubble work. Roof comprised of composite tiles, with three roof lights and chimney brests to each gable. Ground floor interior was V lined. This building was still standing in March 2012.
K.Murphy (Archaeologist CnES)

Comhairle Archaeology Service, 2012, Caolas 2 (Photograph). SWE41246.

Highland Archaeology Services Ltd, 2016, 2 Caolas, Vatersay. (Unpublished document). SWE41244.