Find Spot record 414 - SOUTH DELL, LEWIS

Summary

Wooden bowl from peat

Location

Grid reference NB 47450 61780 (point)
Map sheet NB46SE
Island Lewis
Parish BARVAS, Western Isles

Map

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Full Description

NB46SE 2 4745 6178.

A wooden bowl, 9 1/2 ins in diameter by 5 ins in depth, was found during peat-digging at Airds, South Dell. It is cut out of the solid and the sides are about 1 3/8 ins thick. It was purchased for the NMAS (accession no. SFA 13) in 1909. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1910.

The find-spot of the bowl was pointed out at NB 4745 6178.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 June 1969.

This bowl, in the Museum, could be of any date up to the 18th/19th century.
Information from D Clarke (NMAS) to OS, 15 February 1971.

Unfinished carved bowl, tentatively attributed to the Iron Age and held in the National Museum of Scotland under accession numbers ME 401 and SFA 13.
C Earwood 1993.


PSAS, 1909-10, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9003.

C. Earwood, 1993a, Domestic Wooden Artefacts in Britain and Ireland from Neolithic to Viking Times, 264 (Bibliographic reference). SWE28921.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: C. Earwood. 1993a. Domestic Wooden Artefacts in Britain and Ireland from Neolithic to Viking Times. 264.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1909-10. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 44. 9-12, 102-3, 187-8, 218-2. 9.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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