Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656899

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656899

NF88SE 1 856 806

(Area: NF 858 803) Traces of five or six dwellings were found near An Corran, at the SE corner of Boreray, on a stretch of sandhills 400 yards in length.

Other finds included kitchen midden remains in the form of shells, bones and fragments of ancient pottery a few iron rivets (several of Viking type) and a probable gun-flint. From a few bronze pins examined, of many said to have been found here, only two are earlier than medieval type (c/f NF88SE 5, which may refer to these pins).

E Beveridge 1911.

Concentrations of midden material, most of it unlikely to be of any great age, were found at NF 8554 8082, NF 8559 8072 and NF 8576 8046, in the area of sandhills N of An Corran. Fragmentary building remains occur in the same area.

Visited by OS (J T T) 31 June 1965.

71. RMS GT 127. Square-facetted or bramble-headed pin, with impressed dots on head.

72. RMS GT 126. Square-facetted or bramble-headed pin, very corroded. 73. RMS GT 129. Square-facetted or bramble-headed pin.

L R Laing 1973.