Monument record 2089 - GOIRTEIN, BARRA

NL69NW 15 635 978

(NL 6351 9787 and NL 6350 9790)
Unnanmed detail [=T97 and T98 respectively]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.

For main Gortein settlement (NL 634 979), see NL69NW 19.

(Locations for T97 and T98 cited as NL 635 979)
T97: Substantial blackhouse, 9.3 x 3.3m internally with no subdivision. Location of door uncertain, possibly to W.
T98: Blackhouse, 6 x 3m internally, door to W and no subdivisions.
To SE (at NL 6353 9782) are the remains of a third blackhouse (T94); it has been heavily robbed and measures 9.5 x 4.5m internally with partition wall at N end. Door in E wall and traces of small enclosure or annexe abutting the N wall.
In the vicinity (at NL 634 978) is a group of seventeen clearance cairns (T99-115). Ten appear to be secondary, five primary and two uncertain. Most are between 2m and 4m diameter. A further two isolated clearance cairns are T95 (at NL 6358 9786) which measures about 4m in diameter, and T96 (at NL 6353 9785) which measures 7 x 5m.
K Branigan and P Foster 1995.

K. Brannigan & P. Foster, 1995, Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval from the end of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commissio, 40, 198 fig. 6.6 (Bibliographic reference). SWE33223.