Monument record 1780 - CARAGRICH POINT, VATERSAY

Summary

Building

Location

Grid reference NL 6571 9615 (point)
Map sheet NL69NE
Island Vatersay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NL69NE 12 6571 9615

VN131: Small single-roomed building, 6 x 4m, with door to the NNW and walls 0.8m wide. It stands on a ledge only 5m from the sea, and about 4m above it. Almost certainly associated with the nearby buildings described on NL69NE 13. (grid reference given falls in sea)
NMRS MS 595/11, 5

42: Uidh (VN131)
A small thick-walled oblong building, 6x4m with a door in the centre of the NE wall and no trace of internal partition. Much reduced and grassed over.
Brannigan & Grattan 1998, 41

VN131 (NL657961) Small single-roomed building, 6 x 4 m, with a door to the north north-west and walls 0.8 m wide. It stands on a ledge only 5 m from the sea, and about 4 m above it. Almost certainly associated with the nearby VN132.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 47


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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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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