Monument record 2032 - BAGH SIAR, VATERSAY

Summary

Kerbed cairn robbed to build oval hut, now destroyed

Location

Grid reference NL 62430 95860 (point)
Map sheet NL69NW
Island Vatersay
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NL69NW 111 6243 9586

VN82: A two-phase monument, with a kerbed cairn, heavily robbed out to provide building stone for an oval hut c.6.5 x5.5m. This structure itself is much destroyed and embedded, and it is possible that both structures are perhistoric.
NMRS MS/595/11 p.4

23>Tresivick (VN82)
The cairn is about 8m in diameter, the kerb partly surviving on the south, east and north sides. The stone and turf hut is c. 6.5 x 5.5m, with a possible entrance on the north.
Brannigan & Grattan, 1998, 39

VN82 (NL624959) Two-phase monument with a heavily robbed kerbed cairn overlain by an oval hut. The cairn is about 8 m diameter, the kerb partly surviving on the south, east and north sides. The stone and turf hut is c. 6.5 x 5.5 m, with a possible entrance on the north.

Brannigan and Foster 2000, 45


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.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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