Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656707

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF74SE 8 7559 4080 and 7562 4081.

Two sites were excavated for the Ministry of Works on the machair at Drimore, South Uist.

The first was a sand dune with slight traces of occupation.

The second, near the first, consisted of two much-robbed stone hut circles.

"Both sites were probably contemporary with the stone roundhouse culture of which extensive remains were found in other excavation on the machair."

J G Scott 1956.

(NF 7560 4072 and NF 7561 4081) Two sites excavated by J G Scott in 1956.

Information from MoPBW to OS.

The first of these occupation sites is at NF 75594080 and is visible only as a partially covered excavation and an accumulation of small loose boulders.

This site has been wrongly positioned by J G Scott and MoPBW. The second site (as planned by MoPBW) is at NF 7562 4081 and has vestiges of two hut-circles, one within the other, outlines by widely spaced boulders.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (J T T) 20 May 1965.