Monument record 2090 - GOIRTEIN, BARRA

Summary

Centred NL 635 978, clearance cairn and black house

Location

Grid reference NL 63600 97800 (point)
Map sheet NL69NW
Island Barra
Parish BARRA, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NL69NW 14 636 978

T93: (NL 6364 9782). Much-robbed and reduced small blackhouse, 7.3 x 4.8m. Long axis E-W, door probably in destroyed S wall.
To SE (at NL 6365 9780) is T92, an 18th/19th clearance cairn represented by a grassed-over mound of large stones.
K Branigan and P Foster 1995; NMRS, MS/595/6.


K. Brannigan & P. Foster, 1995, Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval from the end of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commissio, 40, 204, 205 fig. 6.6 (Bibliographic reference). SWE33223.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: K. Brannigan & P. Foster. 1995. Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval from the end of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commissio. 40, 204, 205 fig. 6.6.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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