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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 657525
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657525
NF87NW 7 801 754
(NF 8009 7568) Remains suggestive of an earth-house were partly excavated by Beveridge on the N end of Machair Leathann, 100 yards NW of the round-house (NF87NW 5).
A subterranean gallery, which had its entrance from the south, took a NE direction and then turned abruptly east. The passage led into an irregularly-shaped chamber with, at its NE corner, a doorway entering what seemed to be a second chamber.
E Beveridge 1911.
The remains of this probable earth-house have been filled in with sand but the site can still be traced by a considerable scatter of midden material at NF 8013 7576.
Site supplied at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 20 June 1965.
The excavations and report by Prof. Atkinson (completed by E Campbell) shows the site to be the possible souterrain examined by Beveridge. He states the location as 90m directly N of Site A (NF87NW 26) which places it at NF 8017 7548 at the N end of the hillock.
E Campbell, NMRS MS/855/1, c1988
