Find Spot record 664 - CLADH HALLAN, DALIBURGH, SOUTH UIST

Summary

Centred at NF 734 219, flint tools, mediaeval arrowhead, annular brooch

Location

Grid reference NF 73281 21909 (point)
Map sheet NF72SW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NF72SW 11 centred 734 219.

(Area NF734219) Numerous flint implements found below burial ground and west of it,1928 - barbed and tanged arrowhead, pigmy scraper, microliths, also barbed medieval iron arrow, and bronze annular brooch. Information from R W Feachem.

Local enquiries regarding the find spots proved negative; the present whereabouts of the finds are not known.
Visited by OS (E G C) 11 May 1965.

This may be the same site as NF72SW5.

Flints from Cladh Hallan were donated by T C Lethbridge to Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (51.1010).
Museum Accessions Register.(Archaeologia 1951)


A D Lacaille, 1951, Archaeologia, 136 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13057.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: A D Lacaille. 1951. Archaeologia. 94. 103-39. 136.

Finds (5)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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