Monument record 732 - DRIMORE, SOUTH UIST

Summary

Settlement mounds located on aerial photographs and during survey - SMR nos. 733-742

Location

Grid reference NF 75000 44000 (point)
Map sheet NF74SE
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NF74SE 11.00 75 44

NF74SE 11.01 NF 7580 4028 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.02 NF 7580 4010 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.03 NF 7629 4093 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.04 NF 7573 4474 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.05 NF 7572 4472 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.06 NF 7574 4465 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.07 NF 7581 4460 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.08 NF 7578 4456 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.09 NF 7563 4443 Midden; Bone; Pottery
NF74SE 11.10 NF 7580 4407 Midden; Bone; Pottery

Occupation sites yielding potsherds, bone and midden material, were found on low hills standing above the machar scattered between Loch Bee and the sea, and west of Drimore (NF 76 40) The mounds were found by air photo examination and confirmed on the ground during 1956 by Ancient Monuments Inspectorate investigators.
Information from MoPBW to OS 20 April 1965.

Only 10 of these sites were located, usually evident as low mounds with concentrations of shell and bone. These were at NF 7580 4028, 7580 4010, 7629 4093, 7573 4474, 7572 4472, 7574 4465, 7581 4460, 7578 4456, 7563 4443 and 7580 4407 respectively.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J T T) 21 May 1965.

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Record last edited

Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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