Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694115

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR27SE 15 2872 7301.

(NR 2881 7299) A round house (information from RCAHMS) - a small circular stone building exposed in a bunker - on which rescue work was undertaken in 1976. The wall, which lay against the outer edge of a foundation cut into the dune, was skilfully constructed of upright slabs interspersed with thin dry stone panels of water worn pebbles. Finds consisted of two small sherds of pottery, a bone needle, a few scattered animal bones and a pit full of limpets.

C Burgess 1976.

NR 2872 7302 The excavation undertaken in 1976 has been backfilled, but the top of the wall is still exposed measuring 6m in diameter. A scale model re- construction and photographs in Islay Museum indicate beyond reasonable doubt that this is a hut circle. The finds are with Burgess for analysis, but are to be donated to Islay Museum.

Surveyed at 1:10000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 10 June 1978.