Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656684

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF74SE 5 7564 4096.

(NF 7564 4096) A sub-rectangular Viking House. 50ft by 20ft was excavated for the Ministry of Works at Drimore, South Uist. It was defined by a single course of boulders and contained a long central hearth. Finds included a decorated bone comb, steatite spindle whorls and vessels, and pins and other objects of bone and ivory.

A Maclaren 1956, Informatiom from MoPBW to OS.

No trace of the house remains except for part of the NW angle, defined by a line of small stones at the west end of the elongated hollow, left by the excavation.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (J T T) 19 May 1965.