Monument record 1999 - LEDAIG, BARRA

NL69NE 25 6752 9724

S8: A low roughly built wall shuts off a very small headland. The wall is 1.6m long and 0.7m wide; the headland is today only 1.6m wide and 5.9m long and it can never have been more than twice this size to judge from the rock formation below it. The 'enclosure' could have been used to pen a few sheep. The wall is suffering from heavy wave erosion at either end.
NMRS MS/595/6, 4

15. Ben Orosay (S8)
Site type: enclosure wall
...The headland is eroding on all sides and may have been considerably bigger even two centuries ago.
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.