Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656913

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656913

NF72SW 10 centred 73 21.

'Shards of black and grey handmade pottery, two pointed splinters of bone, and pebble of pumice stone,from the more southerly of the kitchen middens, Daliburgh, South Uist.' were donated to the museum by J Graham Callander, Secretary (PSAS 1916).

Callander also donated 'a number of pieces of coarse pottery, two bone pins, a bone peg, a small pivot of bone, five scrapers of flint, andseveral indeterminate objects of bone, from kitchen-middens in South Uist. (PSAS 1915)'

Six sherds of handmade pottery and a broken bone bodkin, from the dunes near Loch Hallan, South Uist, were donated to the museum by Leslie Alcock, Brasenose College Oxford (PSAS 1950).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915, 1916 and 1950.

Middens not located.

Visited by OS (W D J) 6 May 1965.

This may be the same site as NF72SW 4 or 5.

(Undated) information in NMRS.