Monument record 1429 - PABBAY

NL68NW 3 608 874.

(Area:NL 608874) A sand plateau "covered with small detached middens, each with a broken down ring of stones bearing marks of fire" stretches eastward from the burial place, (evidently NL68NW 2). Finds included human and animal bones, numerous hammer-stones, a probable part of a bronze pot and fragments of an urn. A bronze pin had also been found and "many old things ... had been got and sold at Castlebay.
J Wedderspoon 1915.

A bronze pin from Pabbay is in the NMAS (Illustrated; probably late 7th. cent., vide R B K Stevenson)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1901; R B K Stevenson 1955.

There is no trace of an occupation site in this area of shifting sand. Visited by OS (N K B) 21 May 1965.

PSAS, 1900-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 278 fig. 2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9203.

J Wedderspoon, 1906-12b, Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, 325-7 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7658.

R B K Stevenson, 1955a, Proc Prehist Soc, 291 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8343.