Find Spot record 636 - SLIGEANACH DEAS, BORNISH, SOUTH UIST

NF72NW 12 centred 725 291.

A narrow bone point, found in a midden between Loch Borenish and the shore, South Uist, was presented to the NMAS by Leslie Alcock, Brasenose College, Oxford.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1950.

Midden not located.
Visited by OS (W D J) 9 May 1965.

27. Kildonan, South Uist. NF 7269 2898.
c.15 m diameter, 0.8m+ depth of deposits. Surveyed June 1994. Land in cultivation. Scarce Viking Age pottery (base sherd and grass-impressed). Bone and shell. One sherd has light grass impressions. This is probably the site in RCAHMS records known as Sligeanach Deas, Bornish NF 728 291 Midden; bone point.

Parker Pearson and Sharples

NB This grid referenced used to update location of site R Barrowman 14 Dec 07

NF 7269 2898 The occupation deposits at this location lay immediately behind a natural shell sand mound. The excavation of a single trench fortuitously exposed the top of a roundhouse wall, and the associated pottery suggests it is a wheelhouse.
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Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41170.

PSAS, 1947-8, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 318 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4739.

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 1998, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41173.