Monument record 671 - CLADH HALLAN, DALIBURGH, SOUTH UIST

NF72SW 5 734 217.

(Area NF 734 217 ) Between the midden destroyed (NF72SW 4) to provide a wall for Hallan Burial Ground, and the burial ground itself, Wedderspoon (J Wedderspoon 1915) came upon "a pot-shaped hole about 30 yards in diameter." It was a about 9 feet deep and the sand which filled it had been blown into a dune on the landward side. Part of a midden was also exposed on this side. Wedderspoon found a hammerstone, a bone comb, a few fragments of unglazed pottery, some with herring-bone pattern (they crumbled on being exposed), traces of fire, numerous fragments of deer horn, animal bones and teeth, and two human teeth.
Nearby, another windswept hollow revealed a large midden, about 1/4 acre in extent, and reaching to within 30 yds. west of the burial ground. One part of the midden was almost entirely cockle shells. The rest was covered with shells and bones indiscriminately. Wedderspoon found several hearths, a mound of flints (some showing marks of flaking), several hammer stones, bone needles, fragments of coarse pottery (some with herring-bone pattern), a bronze knob, several human teeth, etc.
J Wedderspoon 1915.

(NF 734 218 approx.) Extensive midden 200yards SW of burial ground, 1927. Broch pottery, iron ring-headed pin (1st/3rd c. AD.).
(NF 733 219 approx.) Extensive midden separated from above by huge dune. Traces of rectangular building. Numerous bone pins - broch types. Invisible 1951.
Information from R W Feachem.

No traces of these middens was found.
Visited by OS (W D J) 6 May 1965.

See also NF72SW 10 and 11.

J Wedderspoon, 1906-12b, Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, 328-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7658.