Monument record 2051 - TRAIGH VARLISH, VATERSAY

NL69NW 105 6185 9716

VN43: A midden and buried land surface; the midden up to 0.5m deep and with traces of simple stone structures within it. A local crofter, John Allen Macneil, records seeing buried structures c.15m back from the edge of the sand cliff, at a point where there is a depression. Small scraps of pottery and two pieces of flint including a small thumb-nail scraper were seen by us in the midden. The midden is exposed in a low sand cliff face which is on the south side of the west-facing Traigh Varlish and is hence subject to considerable erosion each winter.
NMRS MS/595/11

VN43 (NL681972) A midden and buried land surface; the midden up to 0.5m deep and with traces of simple stone structures within it. A local crofter, John Allen Macneil, records seeing buried structures c.15m back from the edge of the sand cliff, at a point where there is a depression. Small scraps of pottery and two pieces of flint including a small thumb-nail scraper were seen by us in the midden. The midden is exposed in a low sand cliff face which is on the south side of the west-facing Traigh Varlish and is hence subject to considerable erosion each winter.

Brannigan and Foster 2000, 42
NB THE GRID REFERENCE IS A MISPRINT AND SHOULD READ NL 618972

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