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Field Visit
Date 1992
Event ID 576978
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/576978
BY55: An ovoid cemetery c. 35m along its axis, enclosed by a wall, and divided into two halves by a cross wall or bank. Burials are found in the eastern half, many of them dug into a large mound, c. 10m in diameter, apparently surfaces with (or made of) beach pebbles. The mound is also slighted by a 5m square building with thick walls built onto the dividing wall. A similar, slightly larger building abuts the wall to the S. This building is partly slighted by a subrectangular building, perhaps a chapel, 9.5m by 5m built into the main cemetery enclosure wall. A smaller sub-square building appears to have been subsequently inserted into the former building. Finally, two blackhouses were built over the cemetery wall on the W side. [See MSS for plan.]
P Foster 1992a; NMRS MSS 595/7, 595/8.
