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Field Visit
Date 12 July 1915
Event ID 1103674
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103674
Earth-house, Bruthach a Tuath, Balivanich.
About 1 mile north-north-east of Balivanich, on the edge of a grassy machair, is a mound of sand some 13 feet high with a layer of kitchen midden refuse scattered over its summit and sides. On the western slope of the mound is a quantity of dislodged stones, with what appear to be the outward ends of two walls radiating from the interior of the mound. Running north and south are two parallel lines of stone peeping through the sand, about 2 feet 6 inches apart, extending for a distance of some 18 feet, which are suggestive of an entrance passage into the building. The scanty fragments of building exposed seem to indicate the presence of a circular earth-house with the interior divided into compartments by walls arranged like the spokes of a wheel, of the type occurring in North Uist (RCAHMS 1928, xlii). Hand-made pottery, animal bones, whelk and limpet shells, also an occasional pecten and razor-fish, pins of bone and bronze, fire-places, hammer stones have been found here.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 12 July 1915.
OS map: South Uist xlvi (unnoted).
