Monument record 1456 - TRESIVICK, BAGH SIAR, VATERSAY

NL69NW 108 centred on 631 955

VN77: (NL 6281 9568) Three stone-built rectangular buildings on a ledge above the sea. The eastern building is 11.7 x 6m with a door facing south into the bay. The western building is 11 x 6.5m, with a partition wall and no visible doorway. It appears to be partly overlain by the third building which is set at right angles to the others and measures 11.5 x 7m. This building too is divided into two rooms. Behind the buildings, to the north, there are traces of lazy-bedding. The structures are within 4-5m of the eroding cliff edge.
NMRS MS/595/11

(NL 6370 9548) One roofed, three unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, Barra etc. 1880, sheet lxvi). Four unroofed buildings and part of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 June 1997

25 Tresivick (VN77)
Complex of three stone buildings. A) is 11.7 x 5.9m with south-facing door to one end of the long wall. B is to the west of A and at right angles to it; it is 11.5 x 7m and parittioned into two almost equal rooms. C) abuts B) at right angles and is 11 x 6.5m with a partition dividing the interior into one broad and one narrow room (2m wide). On the slope behind the building are lazy-beds. Blackhouse, byre and store?
Brannigan & Grattan, 1998, 39

VN77 (NL628957) Complex of three stone buildings. A) is 11.7 x 5.9m with south-facing door to one end of the long wall. B is to the west of A and at right angles to it; it is 11.5 x 7m and parittioned into two almost equal rooms. C) abuts B) at right angles and is 11 x 6.5m with a partition dividing the interior into one broad and one narrow room (2m wide). On the slope behind the building are lazy-beds. Blackhouse and byre?

Brannigan and Foster 2000, 44

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.