Monument record 2019 - THE AIRD, BERNERAY

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Two or more small outlined shelters

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Grid reference NL 57100 80200 (point)
Map sheet NL58SE
Island Berneray, Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

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NL58SE 41 5710 8020

BY51. Two, possibly more, small single-stone outlined shelters, 1 - 1.5m across, built into hill slope.
P Foster 1992; NMRS, MS/595/7.

BY51: shelter. North slope the Aird plateau (sic). Circular stone setting, diam 1.5m, forminmg single cell butted to a few stones set along the curving edge of a natural depression of the peat on the hill-slope. A further possible shelter 6m to the north-west.
Branigan & Foster 2000, 137


P Foster, 1992a, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 88 (Bibliographic reference). SWE25420.

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

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  • --- Bibliographic reference: P Foster. 1992a. Discovery and Excavation, Scotland. 88. 88.
  • --- 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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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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