Monument record 1635 - SHEADER, SANDRAY

NL69SW 6 6327 9244

SY 8: Remains of an oval stone house, 7 x 5m, with orthostat wall 70-90cms high; Iron Age ? Traces of a later, smaller hut inserted.
P Foster 1991; NMRS MS/595/6, 9

SY8 (NL63269245) Complex of shelter and stone setting.
Location: Coastal spur out to sea.
Description: Oval shelter of piled stones with associated linear stone settings and a possible enclosure wall.
Note: The possible enclosure wall on the west side of this complex has been undercut by wave action and is displaced on the foreshore bedrock. Further erosion of this site is to be expected. Minor excavation produced a small quantity of struck flints.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 67

SY8a (NL63269245) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Single oval cell.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 67

SY8b (NL63269239) Stone settings.
Location: As above.
Description: Linear stone settings of unidentified function.
Brannigan and Foster 2000. 67

P Foster, 1991, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 75 (Bibliographic reference). SWE18553.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.