Monument record 1443 - VATERSAY, APPROACH ROAD, BARRA

Summary

70 sites revealed by survey, finds include walls, cairns, hut circles, wheel houses, blackhouses, field systems, enclosures and shelters, kelp kilns, other structures and finds of flint, stone axes and pottery

Location

Grid reference NL 64000 97000 (point)
Map sheet NL69NW
Island Vatersay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (10)

Full Description

NL69NW 7.00 64 97

NL69NW 7.01 6393 9765 Allt Chrisal Flint Flakes; Wall; 'Hut-cirle'; Lazy-beds
NL69NW 7.02 6412 9763 Allt Chrisal Flint Flake; Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.03 6415 9765 Allt Chrisal 'Hut Platform'
NL69NW 7.04 6420 9768 Allt Chrisal Flint Flake; Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.05 6418 9776 Allt Chrisal Pottery; Building; Wheelhouse (possible)
NL69NW 7.06 6425 9773 Allt Chrisal Stone Axe; Querns; Pottery; Blackhouse; Beaker; Flints
NL69NW 7.07 6432 9771 Allt Chrisal Building; Flint Flakes
NL69NW 7.08 6471 9766 Nask Enclosure; Blackhouse; Chambered Cairn
NL69NW 7.09 6376 9769 Allt Chrisal Pottery; Rock Shelter; Flints
NL69NW 7.10 640 976 Allt Chrisal Platform; Dyke; Field Clearance Cairns
NL69NW 7.11 6413 9765 Allt Chrisal Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.12 642 977 Allt Chrisal Shelter; Wall; Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.13 6418 9774 Allt Chrisal Building; Pottery
NL69NW 7.14 6422 9774 Allt Chrisal Enclosure
NL69NW 7.15 6419 9782 Allt Chrisal Building; Worked Flint
NL69NW 7.16 6417 9785 Allt Chrisal Pottery; Hut-circle; Worked Flints
NL69NW 7.17 6422 9778 Allt Chrisal Boundary Dyke
NL69NW 7.18 641 977 Allt Chrisal Shelter; Field Clearance Cairns
NL69NW 7.19 6465 9788 Nask Wall; Shelter
NL69NW 7.20 646 978 Nask Boundary Dykes
NL69NW 7.21 6487 9805 Nask Cairn (possible)
NL69NW 7.22 6480 9799 Nask Blackhouse
NL69NW 7.23 647 979 Nask Blackhouse; Shelter
NL69NW 7.24 6473 9791 Nask Shelter
NL69NW 7.25 6470 9786 Nask Shelter
NL69NW 7.26 6474 9763 Nask Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.27 6461 9778 Nask Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.28 6483 9797 Nask Enclosure; Lazy-beds
NL69NW 7.29 645 976 Nask Walls; Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.30 646 976 Nask Shelter; Blackhouse; Lazy-beds
NL69NW 7.31 646 975 Nask Structures
NL69NW 7.32 6464 9763 Nask Shelter; Wall
NL69NW 7.33 647 976 Nask Field Clearance Cairns
NL69NW 7.34 647 976 Nask Cairn (possible); Wall
NL69NW 7.35 6474 9766 Nask Small Cairn
NL69NW 7.36 648 976 Nask Shelters; Hut-circle (possible)
NL69NW 7.37 6425 9774 Allt Chrisal Stone Axes; Settlement; Beaker; Pottery
NL69NW 7.38 6425 9770 Allt Chrisal Building; Pottery; Flints
NL69NW 7.39 6425 9772 Allt Chrisal Naust
NL69NW 7.40 6427 9773 Allt Chrisal Building
NL69NW 7.41 6429 9772 Allt Chrisal Kelp Kiln
NL69NW 7.42 6429 9772 Allt Chrisal Kelp Kiln
NL69NW 7.43 6428 9770 Allt Chrisal Lazy Beds; Field Clearance Cairn
NL69NW 7.44 648 976 Nask Shelters
NL69NW 7.45 64 97 Allt Chrisal Trackway

A total of some 70 sites were revealed by this survey, carried out prior to the construction of an approach road to the Vatersay Causeway. [These sites (T1-70) have been individually recorded along with others on the Tangaval peninsula.]
MS/595/3.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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