Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648157

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB03NE 7 088 367.

(Area: NB 088 367) An earth-house was exposed by wind erosion and subsequently re-covered by drifting sand, about 1914, in a hollow about 80 yards west of the burial ground at Valtos and about 500 yards NNE of Valtos school at an elevation of about 200' a.s.l.

Mackenzie (A J MacKenzie, Uig Lodge), who saw the earth-house, reported that one of the roof slabs had been removed and it had been entered about 9' west of the entrance. It ran WNW-ESE and there was a dip in the roof in the former direction.

'Some 20' south of the entrance is a heap of fine fractured stones with a quantity of comminuted bones beside it. A few feet west from this was a circular setting of stones possibly a hut-circle. Small fragments of coarse pottery were still in evidence when the site was visited'.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

This earth-house was found at the cemetery gate.

Information contained in letter from A MacKenzie (MoPBW) to OPS 15 August 1967.

Mr MacKenzie is deceased. There is no local knowledge of the exact site of this souterrain. There are two gates, one in the NW wall of the cemetery and one to the NW in the roadside fence where the cemetery track joins the road. Neither fits the RCAHMS description.

Visited by OS 27 June 1969.