Monument record 753 - DRIMORE, SOUTH UIST

NF74SE 7 7577 4040.

A low mound on the machair in front of Drimore Farm, (NF 768 403) South Uist, was excavated by the Ministry of Works. An aisled roundhouse, about 30ft in diameter and containing twelve radial piers was uncovered. Occupation covered a long period. A second roundhouse, 17ft across opened directly off the first to the north-east. A long passage leading east was a composite structure with three periods of building. There were rebates for a door, a small cell on one side and a kiln-like structure at the far end. Finds included potter, bone objects, quern fragments and a pieceof iron, possibly part of a plough-share.
Fairhurst notes "there is little or no sign of late comers confusing the record of the wheelhouse culture.
H Fairhurst 1956.

(NF 7577 4040) Two aisled round houses excavated by Dr Fairhurst in 1956.
Information from MoPBW to OS.

NF 7577 4037 All that is now visible at the site are the outlines of the two aisled round-houses and the passage and cell on the east side of the larger house. These are outlined by/continuous or intermittent single courses of stones barely 0.3m high. Eleven of the radial piers of the larger house are visible. Near the site are several piles of stone debris.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 14 May 1965.

H Fairhurst, 1956, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 33-4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13098.