Monument record 663 - LOCH HALLAN, DALIBURGH, SOUTH UIST

Summary

Centred on NF 73 21, midden

Location

Grid reference NF 73000 21000 (point)
Map sheet NF72SW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NF72SW 10 centred 73 21.

"Shards of black and grey handmade pottery, two pointed splinters of bone, and pebble of pumice stone,from the more southerly of the kitchen middens, Daliburgh, South Uist." were donated to the museum by J Graham Callander, Secretary (PSAS 1916).
Callander also donated "a number of pieces of coarse pottery, two bone pins, a bone peg, a small pivot of bone, five scrapers of flint, andseveral indeterminate objects of bone, from kitchen-middens in South Uist. (PSAS 1915)"
Six sherds of handmade pottery and a broken bone bodkin,from the dunes near Loch Hallan, South Uist, were donated to the museum by Leslie Alcock, Brasenose College Oxford (PSAS 1950).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915, 1916 and 1950.

Middens not located.
Visited by OS (W D J) 6 May 1965.

This may be the same site as NF72SW 4 or 5.


PSAS, 1914-15, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 11 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8963.

PSAS, 1915-16, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 12-13 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9903.

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

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1947-8. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 82. 315-25. 318.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1914-15. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 49. 10-17, 56, 92, 207-8, 275. 11.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: PSAS. 1915-16. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 50. 12-18, 63-4, 152-4, 255-6. 12-13.

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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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