Monument record 1502 - RUBHA LIATH, BARRA

Summary

Black house

Location

Grid reference NF 71690 00380 (point)
Map sheet NF70SW
Island Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NF70SW 12 7169 0038

L6: An unusual blackhouse, 8.3 x 5.1m, with two opposing doorways in the long (E and W) walls, and a narrow second room at the S end entered by a door midway along the partition wall.
NMRS MS/595/7, 3

85. Rubha Liath (L6)
Site Type: outbuilding
Thick-walled oblong building, 8.3 x 5.1 m, with opposing doors in the east and west walls, and two short projecting walls dividing off a narrow room at the south end. The wall is built mainly of stones rather than having an earth core.
Branigan and Grattan 1998, 20.

Also in Branigan and Foster 2000, 17.


Keith Branigan & John Grattan, 1998, Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay (Bibliographic reference). SWE41024.

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

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Keith Branigan & John Grattan. 1998. Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay. 1 & 2.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster. 2000. From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles .... SEARCH vol 5.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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