Monument record 2025 - EORISDALE, VATERSAY

Summary

Building foundations, possibly mediaeval - post-mediaeval

Location

Grid reference NL 64580 93980 (point)
Map sheet NL69SW
Island Vatersay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NL69SW 44 6458 9398

VS 22: Grassed-over traces of a rectangular house 10 x 4m, with an internal partition flanking a raised platform/floor 4 x 2m across centre of house.
NMRS MS/595/7, 9

2. Eorisdale (VS22)
Rectangular building platform 10 x 4m with traces of stone alignment around edges, and with a 2m wide raised area across the middle. The prepared base of a demolished and removed timber building; probably an outbuilding for the Eorisdale settlement.
Brannigan & Grattan 1998, 44

VS22 (NL644941) Rectangular building platform 10 x 4m with traces of stone alignment around edges, and with a 2m wide raised area across the middle. The prepared base of a demolished and removed timber building; probably an outbuilding for the Eorisdale settlement.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 51


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.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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