Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656090

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF77SE 3 7708 7415.

(NF 7705 7417) Cnoc a' Comhdhalach, an aisled round house (L Scott 1948; Visible on RAF air photographs 540/509: pt II: 4050-1: flown 23 May 1951) situated 400 yards N of Loch nan Clachan and within 30 yards of the west shore of Vallay Strand. Excavated in 1905-7 by Beveridge when at least five periods of occupation were identified, all separated by long periods of disuse.

In addition to kitchen-midden remains finds included objects of stone and flint (including a leaf-shaped arrow- head), pottery, bone and bronze. (E Beveridge 1911)

The finds are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

E Beveridge 1911; L Scott 1948; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1912 and 1922.

NF 7708 7415 This feature (the name of which could not be confirmed) is as described and planned above and is poorly preserved.

Surveyed at 1/10,560.

Some 30.0m to the NE there are the remains of a rectangular structure (probably a later building) with an enclosing wall on the SE side.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 June 1965.