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Field Visit
Date 7 September 1914
Event ID 1103624
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103624
Kitchen Midden, Ceardach Ruadh, Baleshare.
[NF76SE 9] About ½ mile north-west of Teampull Chriosd, on a high sandhill near the sea-shore, is a kitchen midden with some loose stones on the summit, perhaps the remains of a hut circle. Unornamented pottery, pumice, bones of animals and shells of winkles and limpets, the former most numerous, as well as a few pieces of iron, were noted. A large block of whale bone 9 ½ inches by 9 ½ inches by 7 inches, with two holes on top near one side 2 ½ inches and 1 5/8 inches in diameter and 2 ½ inches and 1 ½ inches deep, was found and retained for the National Museum. Human burials and pins of bronze and bone have been found here, as well as flints and bits of deer horn.
[NF76SE 19] About ½ mile south of above are extensive kitchen middens at a place called Sloc Sabhaidh. Burials have been found here, also plain pottery and animal bones, winkles predominating among shells. At one place cockles were the only shells. Two good selections of deposits were seen: one to the north, 1 foot thick, showed three layers of winkles with sand between, and another at the south showed a thickness of about 2 feet.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 7 September 1914.
OS map: North Uist xxxix (unnoted).
