Monument record 669 - BRUTHACH AN TIGH TALLAN, KILPHEDER, SOUTH UIST

NF72SW 3 734 207.

(Area NF 734207) About 500 yards north of the aisled round-house excavated in 1951-2 by Lethbridge, at Kilpheder, South Uist (NF72SW 1 ) a few stones of a midden are all that remains of another ? aisled round-house wheelhouse which was completely removed a few years previously. The site is known as Bruthach an Tigh Tallan (the brae of the buried house). The midden has produced a ring-headed pin or pins dated to between AD. 100-200. A bronze pin was found by Dr. Kissling.
T C Lethbridge 1952.

There is now no trace of this aisled round-house wheelhouse and midden. Visited by OS (W D J) 6 May 1965.

61: Daliburgh, NF 7350 2073
6m+ diameter, 1m depth of deposits, surveyed June 1995, pasture.
One sherd of Viking Age pottery (base with finger impressions on top and grass impressions on underside). Shell and bone. Immediately north of the corrugated iron cowshed within an east facing slope. Low concentrations of shells. Exposed by cattle/sheep scrape along a 6m length. This is probably the same as site recorded by RCAHMS as Bruthach an Tigh Tallan.
Parker Pearson and Sharples

Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41170.

T C Lethbridge, 1952, Proc Prehist Soc, 176 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4035.