Monument record 1522 - BEINN NAN CARNAN, BARRA

NL69NE 21 6891 9763

S4: Rough boulder wall which shuts off a small headland, on which there is a fern-covered mound with no sign of building stone and apparently little depth of soil. The wall is c. 12m long, 1m wide, and is roughly faced on the mainland side, backed with an earth bank and traces of a ditch on the headland side. Too insubstantial to have a defensive purpose. Flanked by deep inlets, and eroding as a result of wave action.
NMRS MS/595/6, 3

12. Aird Rubha Mor (S4)
Site type: promontory enclosure wall
An earth or turf wall faced with irregular boulders on the landward side, shutting off a small headland...
Branigan and Grattan 1998, 23

Also in Branigan and Foster 2000, 19

Keith Branigan & John Grattan, 1998, Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay, 23 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41024.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ..., 19 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.