Monument record 1996 - GLAC NA BUIDHE, BARRA

NL69NE 22 6865 9754

S5: stone-built wall fronting a small hill flanked by two streams. The wall is roughly coursed but also incorporates large naturalboulders/rock outcrops into its line. Its total length is c28m and its width 1m; at its highest it stands 1.25m high. It appears to have been built to protect the lower slope of the hill from the sea. To the N, about 50m from the sea, on a fern-covered hillock, there is a pronounced rectangular platform 7m x 5m, which is almost certainly the site of a small building. Waves reach considerably further inland than this wall; at its southern end the wall has been washed alomost entirely away. The wall is almost certainly 18th/19th century.
NMRS MS 595/6, 3-4

13. Glac na Buidha (S5)
Site type: stone wall and house platform?
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.