Monument record 719 - CNOC MOR, HORNISH POINT, SOUTH UIST

NF74NE 18 758 470.

Coring revealed that midden deposits extended up to 20m inland and over a length of at least 60m along the exposed sand face. Its depth was about 3m. Excavation uncovered a series of superimposed drystone built structures, one of which had a sub-floor stone drain and radial walls, characteristic of a wheelhouse.
J Barber 1984.

1984 excavation revealed burial overlain by wheel-house; 4 pits of which 3 contained animal (ox and sheep) and human bone, 1 human bone only. Remains of a single individual aged about 12 years and more probably male. Skeletons disarticulated by butchery, at or after time of death, with some evidence for subsequent excavation.
Pits chronologically bracketed between 460 +/- 50 bc (GU-2161) and 385 +/- 50 bc (GU-2017) (Dates not calibrated for carbonate retention).
J Barber, P Halstead, H James and F Lee 1989.

J Barber, 1984f, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 45 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13067.

J, P, H and F Barber, Halstead, 1989, Antiquity, 63 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13068.

I Armit, 1991b, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 212-3 illus 4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE24816.