Monument record 1620 - BOGGACH, BARRA

NF70SW 17 716 023

A2: NF 7164 0230: Turf and stone blackhouse, 8 x 6m, doorway in NW corner. To S, at NF 7164 0229 is a second blackhouse (A3). Partly demolished, it measures 9 x 6m, the remaining S and W walls standing over 1m high. [MS gives grid references of NF 7164 4230 and NF 7164 4229 respectively: these are clearly erroneous.]
NMRS MS/595/7, 4

76.Loch Obe
Site Type:Blackhouse
Heavily robbed and grassed over foundations of a thick walled structure,9 x 6.6m,with rounded corners.
Branigan and Grattan p.19

Also in Branigan and Foster 2000, 12, [but the grid references given in this publication are also erroneous. CSB 8/3/2001].

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.