Monument record 236 - BRAGAR, LEWIS
Summary
Location
| Grid reference | NB 28800 48900 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NB24NE |
| Island | Lewis |
| Parish | BARVAS, Western Isles |
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Type and Period (3)
Full Description
NB24NE 4 2880 4890.
(NB 288 489) A recently dug grave at Teampull Eion (NB24NE 3 - ? 15th cent. church) revealed "kitchen-middens in the burying ground and on the narrow shelf between the enclosing wall and the eroded face above the sea-shore.
These contain food reguse and numerous fragments of pottery, as well as maany stones, probably the remains of hut circles. There are many fine fractured pot-boilers about, and a hammer-stone and a small stone disc (potlid ?) were also turned up".
RCAHMS 1928, visited 29 June 1914.
Numerous fragments of pottery and objects of stone, horn, bone, including a weaving comb of cetacean bone (PSAS 1925) and a stone axe and barbed and tanged arrowhead (PSAS 1935), from the kitchen-midden at Bragor, have been given to the NMAS by Murdo Morrison, Corresponding Member, Bragor.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915; 1917; 1921; 1924; 1935; 1950.
Kitchen-midden material and indeterminate traces of walling can be seen immediately outside the graveyard wall, as described, but there are no other traces of settlement. The midden centred at NB 2880 4890, covers a large area and contains shells, bones and large quantities of potsherds, some coarse broch-type ware and some much finer and roughly decorated with herringbone and lattice designs. Mr Morrison is now dead, and his relatives can offer no further information.
Visited by OS (R L) 17 june 1969.
PSAS, 1914-15, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 11 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8963.
PSAS, 1916-17, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 176 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10775.
PSAS, 1920-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 10 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9775.
PSAS, 1923-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 18 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9035.
RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 10, No. 23 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.
PSAS, 1934-5, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 15 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10244.
PSAS, 1947-8, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 319 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4739.
C Thomas, 1961a, Archaeol J, 15 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7690.
M Macgregor, 1976, Early Celtic Art in North Britain, 1, 9, 153, 155-6, no. 327 pl. XIVc (Bibliographic reference). SWE4422.
M Carson, 1976-7, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 375 (Bibliographic reference). SWE559.
Sources/Archives (10)
- --- SWE10244 Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1934-5. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 69. 9-26,118-21,246-50,322-4,. 15.
- --- SWE10775 Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1916-17. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 51. 10-15,29-30,98-9,128-9,17. 176.
- --- SWE4422 Bibliographic reference: M Macgregor. 1976. Early Celtic Art in North Britain. 1, 9, 153, 155-6, no. 327 pl. XIVc.
- --- SWE4739 Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1947-8. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 82. 315-25. 319.
- --- SWE5587 Bibliographic reference: RCAHMS. 1928. The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. 10, No. 23.
- --- SWE559 Bibliographic reference: M Carson. 1976-7. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 108. 370-5. 375.
- --- SWE7690 Bibliographic reference: C Thomas. 1961a. Archaeol J. 118. 14-64. 15.
- --- SWE8963 Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1914-15. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 49. 10-17, 56, 92, 207-8, 275. 11.
- --- SWE9035 Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1923-4. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 58. 11-23, 100-2, 140-2, 224-. 18.
- --- SWE9775 Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1920-1. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 55. 10-28, 108-10, 150-2, 272. 10.
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Record last edited
Jul 28 2005 2:24PM
